More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 59

She made animals out of the ashes that looked and moved like life; and trees with green leaves waving over tiny houses, with men and women an inch high in them, who, when she breathed on them, fell to walking and talking quite properly.

Who acts: dreadful, ashes, green leaves, inch · What happens: make, look, move, wave, breathe, fall · To what, where: animals, ashes, tiny houses

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful, ashes, green leaves, inch), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 ashes	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ashes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ashes	det
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ashes	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 moved	cc
11	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 life	case
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moved	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 trees	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trees	cc
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 leaves	case
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 leaves	amod
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 trees	nmod
20	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 leaves	acl
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 houses	case
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 houses	amod
23	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 waving	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 men	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 men	case
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 trees	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 women	cc
28	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 men	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 inch	det
30	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 breathed	nsubj
31	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 inch	amod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 high	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 breathed	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 breathed	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 breathed	punct
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 breathed	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 breathed	nsubj
39	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 men	acl:relcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 breathed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fell	punct
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 breathed	conj
44	to	to	SCONJ	_	45 walking	mark
45	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 fell	advcl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 talking	cc
47	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 walking	conj
48	quite	quite	ADV	_	49 properly	advmod
49	properly	properly	ADV	_	47 talking	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	dreadful	animals	the ashes	trees with green leaves and men and women obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Product
2	look	past	the ashes				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	move	past	the ashes not said here			like life	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	wave	gerund	green leaves not said here		tiny houses		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over house=Location
5	breathe	past	a inch			on men = man	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination
6	fall	past	a inch not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	walk	gerund	a inch not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	talk	gerund	a inch not said here			properly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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