English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 12

His stockings, of apple-rind, they tie With eyelash from his mother's eye His shoes were made of mouse's skin, Tann'd with the downy hair within.”

Who acts: stockings, eye · What happens: tie, make · To what, where: eye, shoes

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stockings, eye), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stockings	nmod:poss
2	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tie	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rind	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 rind	case
5	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rind	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 apple	punct
7	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stockings	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stockings	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tie	nsubj
10	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	With	with	ADP	_	12 eyelash	case
12	eyelash	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tie	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 eye	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eye	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 mother	case
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tie	obl
18	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoes	nmod:poss
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 made	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux:pass
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 eye	acl:relcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 skin	case
23	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 skin	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 mouse	case
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 'd	punct
27	Tann	Tann	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 'd	nsubj
28	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tie	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 hair	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hair	det
31	downy	downy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hair	amod
32	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 'd	obl
33	within	within	ADP	_	28 'd	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tie	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 tie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	present	Tom's stockings and apple rind			Tom's mother's eye		with eyelash	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with eyelash=Co-Patient
2	make	past · passive	Tom's mother's eye not said here	Tom's shoes				of mouse's skin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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