The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 110

She took off her sash, and tied one end round the butterfly; the other end she fastened to the leaf, so that now it glided along with her faster than ever.

Who acts: leaf, other end, end · What happens: take off, tie, fasten, glide · To what, where: sash, one end

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, other end, end), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sash	nmod:poss
5	sash	sash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tied	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
8	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 end	nummod
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obj
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 butterfly	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 butterfly	det
13	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fastened	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 end	amod
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fastened	nsubj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fastened	nsubj
19	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 leaf	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaf	det
22	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fastened	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 glided	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 glided	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 glided	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 glided	nsubj
28	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fastened	conj
29	along	along	ADV	_	28 glided	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 faster	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 faster	nmod:poss
32	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 glided	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	34 ever	case
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 faster	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	leaf	leaf's sash			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sash=Theme
2	tie	past	leaf not said here	one end		round the butterfly	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
3	fasten	past	the other end			to the leaf	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to leaf=Co-Patient
4	glide	past	end		now	along, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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