The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 21

She put the linen into his hands, and he took it straight back to his mother, who was so pleased with it that she declared she had never seen linen so beautifully spun, and that it was far finer and whiter than the webs that the two elder brothers had brought home.

Who acts: linen, youth, hand · What happens: put, take, be, declare, not see, spin · To what, where: linen, hands, hand, two elder brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (linen, youth, hand), 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 linen	det
4	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	obj
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 back	advmod
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pleased	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pleased	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 pleased	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleased	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 pleased	advmod
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 took	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pleased	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 declared	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 declared	nsubj
27	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleased	advcl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seen	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 seen	advmod
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 declared	ccomp
32	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seen	obj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 beautifully	advmod
34	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	35 spun	advmod
35	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 seen	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 finer	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 finer	cc
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 finer	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 finer	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 finer	cop
41	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 finer	advmod
42	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 declared	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 whiter	cc
44	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 finer	conj
45	than	than	ADP	_	47 webs	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 webs	det
47	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 finer	obl
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 brought	obj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 brothers	det
50	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 brothers	nummod
51	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 brothers	amod
52	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 brought	nsubj:pass
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 brought	aux
54	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 webs	acl:relcl
55	home	home	ADV	_	54 brought	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	linen	the linen	youth's hands		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent linen=Goal
2	take	past	youth	hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	past				to youth's mother; with hand; pleased property	tree rules
4	declare speech: other	past	linen				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not see	past · perfect	linen	linen			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer linen=Stimulus
6	spin	participle	linen not said here			beautifully property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	hand			than the webs; far, fine property	tree rules
8	be		hand not said here				tree rules
9	bring	past · perfect · passive		the two elder brothers		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination that=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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