The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 86

Upon the long table twelve mice were fastened by the tail, and just in front of each one’s nose, but quite beyond its reach, lay a tempting morsel of fat bacon.

Who acts: tail, reach · What happens: fasten, lay · To what, where: twelve mice, front, tempting morsel

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, reach), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 table	amod
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fastened	obl
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 mice	nummod
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fastened	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fastened	aux:pass
8	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tail	det
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fastened	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 front	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 front	cc
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 front	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 front	case
16	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fastened	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 nose	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nose	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 one	case
21	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 front	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 reach	advmod
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	27 reach	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 reach	nmod:poss
27	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reach	punct
29	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fastened	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 morsel	det
31	tempting	tempting	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 morsel	compound
32	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 bacon	case
34	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bacon	compound
35	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 morsel	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	past · passive	the tail	twelve mice		front of each one's nose		upon the long table	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	lay	infinitive	nose's reach	a tempting morsel of fat bacon					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Result

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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