The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 94

Its trunk was of iron, its leaves were of silk, its flowers of gold, and its fruit of diamonds, and one evening, though the girl did not know it, a soft breeze took one of the leaves, and blew it across the sea to the feet of one of the king’s attendants.

Who acts: trunk, leaves, girl, soft breeze · What happens: be, not know, take, blow · To what, where: trunk, one, feet, 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 (trunk, leaves, girl, soft breeze), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 trunk	nmod:poss
2	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 iron	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 iron	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 iron	case
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 silk	punct
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 leaves	nmod:poss
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 silk	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 silk	cop
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 silk	case
11	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 iron	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flowers	punct
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flowers	nmod:poss
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 silk	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 gold	case
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flowers	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fruit	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fruit	cc
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fruit	nmod:poss
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 iron	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 diamonds	case
22	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fruit	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 evening	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 evening	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 evening	nummod
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 iron	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 know	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 know	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 know	advmod
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 iron	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 know	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 took	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 breeze	det
37	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 breeze	amod
38	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 took	nsubj
39	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 know	parataxis
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 took	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 leaves	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 leaves	det
43	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 one	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 blew	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 blew	cc
46	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 took	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 blew	obj
48	across	across	ADP	_	50 sea	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sea	det
50	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 blew	obl
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 feet	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 feet	det
53	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 blew	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 one	case
55	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 feet	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	60 attendants	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 king	det
58	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 attendants	nmod:poss
59	’s	's	PART	_	58 king	case
60	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 one	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 iron	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	forest's trunk				of iron and silk and trunk's flowers of gold and trunk's fruit of diamonds and one evening	tree rules
2	is	past	trunk's leaves				of silk and trunk's flowers of gold	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	the girl	trunk				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	take	past	a soft breeze	one of the leaves				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	blow	past	a soft breeze not said here	trunk	the feet of one of the king's attendants	the sea		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to foot=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: «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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