The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 90

And as she scooped out the hole with a stick she sang a song, bidding the bones grow till they became a tree--a tree that reached up so high into the heavens that its leaves would fall across the sea into another island, whose king would pick them up.

Who acts: body, bones, tree, leaves, king · What happens: scoop out, sing, bid, grow, become, reach up · To what, where: hole, song, bones, tree, heavens, sea

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (body, bones, tree, leaves), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 grow	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 scooped	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scooped	nsubj
4	scooped	scoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grow	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 scooped	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hole	det
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scooped	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stick	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stick	det
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	nmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sang	nsubj
12	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stick	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 song	det
14	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sang	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bidding	punct
16	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 scooped	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bones	det
18	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bidding	obj
19	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 became	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grow	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	xcomp
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 tree	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	appos
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 reached	nsubj
29	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tree	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 reached	compound:prt
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 high	advmod
32	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 reached	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 heavens	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 heavens	det
35	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 reached	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 fall	obj
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 leaves	nmod:poss
38	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 fall	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 fall	aux
40	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 heavens	acl:relcl
41	across	across	ADP	_	43 sea	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sea	det
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	obl
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 island	case
45	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	46 island	det
46	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 pick	punct
48	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	49 king	nmod:poss
49	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 pick	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 pick	aux
51	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 island	acl:relcl
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 pick	obj
53	up	up	ADP	_	51 pick	compound:prt
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scoop out	past	body	the hole		with a stick	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	body	a song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	bid	gerund	body not said here	the bones			tree rules
4	grow	present					tree rules
5	become	past	bones = bone	a tree			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	reach up	past	a tree		the heavens	high property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into heaven=Path
7	fall	would	hole's leaves	the heavens	the sea	into another island	tree rules
8	pick up	would	king	bones = bone			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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