The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 111

In short, they ran and took the crown off the head of the deceased, and placed it on that of Drakestail, whom it fitted like wax.

Who acts: acclamations · What happens: run, take, decease, place, fit · To what, where: short, crown, head, that

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (acclamations), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ran	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 short	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crown	det
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obl
13	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	12 head	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 deceased	det
15	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 of	fixed
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 placed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 placed	cc
18	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 placed	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 placed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Drakestail	case
23	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 that	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fitted	punct
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fitted	nsubj:pass
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fitted	nsubj:pass
27	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 placed	parataxis
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 wax	case
29	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fitted	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	acclamations = acclamation		short		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in short=Trajectory
2	take	past	acclamations = acclamation not said here	the crown	the head		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme off head=Initial_Location
3	decease	participle					vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	place	past	acclamations = acclamation not said here	crown	that		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on that=Destination
5	fit	participle · passive				like wax	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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