English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 49

Of Butterfly's wings his shirt was made, His boots of chicken's hide; And by a nimble fairy blade, Well learned in the tailoring trade, His clothing was supplied.

Who acts: Well · What happens: make, learn, supply · To what, where: shirt, tailoring trade, clothing

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 (Well), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 wings	case
2	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wings	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Butterfly	case
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shirt	nmod:poss
6	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boots	punct
10	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 boots	nmod:poss
11	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 hide	case
13	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hide	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 chicken	case
15	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boots	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 learned	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 learned	cc
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 blade	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blade	det
20	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blade	amod
21	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blade	compound
22	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 learned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blade	punct
24	Well	Well	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 learned	nsubj
25	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 trade	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trade	det
28	tailoring	tailoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trade	compound
29	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 learned	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 supplied	punct
31	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 clothing	nmod:poss
32	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 supplied	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 supplied	aux:pass
34	supplied	supply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 learned	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Tom's shirt		of Butterfly's wings; Tom's boots of chicken's hide obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	learn	past	Well		the tailoring trade	by a nimble fairy blade	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	supply	past · passive		Tom's clothing			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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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