The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 12

He was dressed in a green jacket with a leather belt and red breeches, and on his feet were sandals fastened by thongs passed round his legs in the gipsy fashion.

What happens: dress, be, fasten, pass · To what, where: two, green jacket, sandals, feet, thongs, gipsy fashion

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux:pass
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 jacket	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jacket	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jacket	amod
7	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 belt	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 belt	det
10	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 belt	compound
11	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jacket	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 breeches	cc
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 breeches	amod
14	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 belt	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sandals	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sandals	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sandals	obl
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sandals	cop
21	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dressed	obl
22	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sandals	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 thongs	case
24	thongs	thong	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fastened	obl
25	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 thongs	acl
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 legs	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legs	nmod:poss
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 passed	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 fashion	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fashion	det
31	gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fashion	compound
32	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive	two	a green jacket with a leather belt and red breeches		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past	sandals	two's feet		tree rules
3	fasten	participle	sandals not said here		by thongs	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	pass	participle	thongs not said here	the gipsy fashion	round two's legs	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fashion=Location

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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