The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 5

And he at once set to work to curl his hair, and, seeing upon a table a grander coat than his own, he put it on carefully.

Who acts: counsellor · What happens: set, work, curl, see, put on · To what, where: counsellor, hair, grander coat, coat

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsellor), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 set	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj:pass
3	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 set	mark
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 set	advmod
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 set	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 curl	mark
9	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 work	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 curl	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seeing	punct
15	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 put	advcl
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeing	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 coat	det
20	grander	grand	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 coat	amod
21	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeing	obj
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 own	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 coat	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seeing	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	nsubj
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	27 put	compound:prt
30	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	27 put	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	participle · passive		counsellor	once property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	curl	to-infinitive		counsellor's hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	see	gerund	counsellor not said here	a grander coat	upon a table; than counsellor's own	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus
5	put on	past	counsellor	coat	carefully property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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