The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 45

They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: ‘Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.’

Who acts: authors, girl, other · What happens: begin, go out, meet, wing · To what, where: Flowers, fairies, things

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (authors, girl, other), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begin	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 begin	advmod
3	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 boy	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begin	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 girl	cc
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	conj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 girl	acl:relcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 goes	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 meets	cc
14	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 goes	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fairies	det
16	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 meets	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 polyanthuses	case
18	polyanthuses	polyanthus	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fairies	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gardenias	cc
20	gardenias	gardenia	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 polyanthuses	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 blossoms	cc
22	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blossoms	compound
23	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 polyanthuses	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Flowers	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Flowers	punct
26	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 begin	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fruits	cc
28	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Flowers	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 winged	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 winged	cc
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 winged	nsubj
32	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begin	parataxis
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 winged	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	present	authors = author	Flowers and fruits	with a little boy or girl; always property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with boy=Subeventuality
2	go out	present	girl			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	meet	present	girl not said here	the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Co-Agent
4	wing	past	other	things		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme thing=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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