The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 87

Seven Inches loosened the silver chain that fastened the boat, and pushed away, and after grinning at the four men, says he to them.

Who acts: Seven Inches, silver chain · What happens: loosen, fasten, push away, grin, say · To what, where: silver chain, boat, strength, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven Inches, silver chain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Inches	nummod
2	Inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loosened	nsubj
3	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chain	det
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chain	compound
6	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loosened	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fastened	nsubj
8	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chain	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boat	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fastened	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pushed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pushed	cc
13	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loosened	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 pushed	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 says	cc
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 grinning	mark
18	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 says	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 men	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 men	nummod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grinning	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grinning	punct
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 loosened	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 says	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 says	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loosened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	loosen	past	Seven Inches	the silver chain			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chain=Patient
2	fasten	past	the silver chain	the boat			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient
3	push away	participle	Seven Inches not said here			away property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	grin	gerund				at the four men	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	Seven Inches not said here	strength	man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to they=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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