The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 46

And as he spoke he stretched out the magic herbs to the stones, which were advancing rapidly.

Who acts: stones · What happens: stretch out, advance · To what, where: fate

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stones), 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	_	6 stretched	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stretched	aux:pass
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stretched	nsubj
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 stretched	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 herbs	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 herbs	amod
10	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stretched	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 stones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stones	det
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 herbs	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 advancing	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 advancing	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 advancing	aux
17	advancing	advance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 stones	acl
18	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	17 advancing	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past · passive		fate					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient herb=Result
2	advance	past · progressive	the stones					rapidly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 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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