The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 106

She was just raising the glass to drink when a flame went up out of it, and out of the flame sprang two pigeons, one of gold and one of silver.

Who acts: banquet, flame · What happens: raise, drink, go up, spring · To what, where: glass, two pigeons, flame

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (banquet, flame), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raising	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raising	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 raising	advmod
4	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raising	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drink	mark
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 raising	advcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 went	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 flame	det
11	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drink	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 it	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sprang	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sprang	cc
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 flame	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 flame	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flame	det
22	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sprang	obl
23	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raising	conj
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pigeons	nummod
25	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sprang	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pigeons	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 one	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 one	cc
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 silver	case
33	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 one	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raising	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	raise	past · progressive	banquet	the glass		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
2	drink	to-infinitive	banquet not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go up	past	a flame		glass	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	spring	past	banquet not said here	two pigeons	the flame	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location pigeon=Theme

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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