The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 43

In the end the brothers told him about the coverlet which, when one touched it, sounded so that it could be heard over eight kingdoms.

Who acts: brothers, one · What happens: tell, touch, sound, hear · To what, where: property, end · 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 (brothers, one), 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	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 coverlet	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coverlet	det
10	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 coverlet	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 touched	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 touched	advmod
14	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touched	nsubj
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touched	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sounded	punct
18	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 touched	conj
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 heard	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 heard	aux:pass
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sounded	advcl
25	over	over	ADV	_	26 eight	advmod
26	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 kingdoms	nummod
27	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heard	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the brothers		property	in the end	about the coverlet	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about coverlet=Topic
2	touch	past	one	end				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	sound	past	one not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	hear	could · passive		end				tree rules

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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