The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 118

At length it was decided that she was never to go out in a wind, and in order to make matters surer still the equerries each held the end of a string which was fastened to her waist.

Who acts: Diaphana, each · What happens: decide, not be, make, hold, fasten · To what, where: length, wind, end, string · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diaphana, each), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 decided	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 decided	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 decided	aux:pass
5	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 go	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	cop
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 go	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 decided	ccomp
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wind	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
18	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 make	mark
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 in	fixed
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 decided	parataxis
22	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surer	nsubj
23	surer	sure	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 make	xcomp
24	still	still	ADV	_	26 equerries	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 equerries	det
26	equerries	equerry	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surer	obl
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 held	nsubj
28	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 surer	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 held	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 string	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 string	det
33	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 end	nmod
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 fastened	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fastened	aux:pass
36	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 string	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 waist	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 waist	nmod:poss
39	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fastened	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	past · passive		length	length		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
2	not is not said to happen	past	Diaphana		a wind	go, out property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive				sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	hold	past	each	the end of a string			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
5	fasten	past · passive		a string		to Diaphana's waist	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to waist=Co-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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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