The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 25

Then his bride took off one of her snow-white shirts, and cast it on the lindorm’s skin.

Who acts: bride · What happens: take off, cast · To what, where: one, snow, skin

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bride	nmod:poss
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 shirts	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shirts	nmod:poss
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	obl
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 snow	punct
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shirts	amod
12	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cast	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cast	cc
15	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cast	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 skin	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lindorm	det
19	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 skin	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 lindorm	case
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cast	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	sun's bride	one of bride's white shirts			then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	cast	past	sun's bride not said here	snow		the lindorm's skin			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on skin=Destination

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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