The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 45

The young man fetched the pillows, and shook out all the feathers, and oh! what quantities of them there were!

Who acts: young man · What happens: fetch, shake out · To what, where: pillows, feathers

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetched	nsubj
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pillows	det
6	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fetched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shook	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shook	cc
9	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fetched	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 shook	compound:prt
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 feathers	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feathers	det
13	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shook	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 what	cc
16	oh	oh	INTJ	_	18 what	discourse
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 oh	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fetched	parataxis
19	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 were	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 quantities	nmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 were	expl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	the young man	the pillows					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme
2	shake out	past	the young man not said here	all feathers					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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