The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 53

So he procured some bears’ skins, and covered himself and his horse with them, so that not a particle of gold could be seen, and then rode bravely on into the heart of the forest.

Who acts: brother · What happens: procure, cover, see, ride · To what, where: skins, brother, particle, heart

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 procured	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 procured	nsubj
3	procured	procure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bears	det
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 skins	nmod:poss
6	’	's	PART	_	5 bears	case
7	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 procured	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 covered	cc
10	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 procured	parataxis
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 covered	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 horse	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horse	nmod:poss
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 himself	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 horse	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 seen	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 seen	mark
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 particle	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 particle	det
22	particle	particle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 gold	case
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 particle	nmod
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 seen	aux:pass
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 covered	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rode	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rode	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 rode	advmod
31	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 procured	conj
32	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	33 on	advmod
33	on	on	ADV	_	31 rode	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 heart	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heart	det
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rode	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 forest	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 forest	det
39	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heart	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 procured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	procure	past	brother	some bears's skins			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	cover	past		brother			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination
3	see	could · passive		a particle of gold			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	ride	past	brother not said here		the heart of the forest	then	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into heart=Trajectory

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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