The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 21

These last words melted the good woman completely, and she unfastened the bonds that held him.

Who acts: last words, word, bonds · What happens: melt, unfasten, hold · To what, where: good woman, bonds, heart

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last words, word, bonds), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melted	nsubj
4	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melted	obj
8	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 melted	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unfastened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 unfastened	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 unfastened	nsubj
12	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 melted	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bonds	det
14	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 unfastened	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 held	nsubj
16	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bonds	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 held	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 melted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	melt	past	this last words	the good woman	completely property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient woman=Result
2	unfasten	past	word	the bonds		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bond=Patient
3	hold	past	the bonds	heart		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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