The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 114

When their pockets were full, Bellah ordered her stick to become a winged carriage, large enough to bear them and the men they had rescued back to Lanillis.

Who acts: pockets, Bellah, stick · What happens: be, order, become, wing, bear, rescue · To what, where: stick, winged carriage, cabbage, men

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pockets, Bellah, stick), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 full	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 pockets	nmod:poss
3	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ordered	punct
7	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	nsubj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stick	nmod:poss
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 become	mark
12	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ordered	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 carriage	det
14	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 carriage	amod
15	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 become	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 large	punct
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 carriage	amod
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 large	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bear	mark
20	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 large	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bear	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rescued	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 men	det
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rescued	nsubj:pass
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rescued	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rescued	aux
27	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 large	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 rescued	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Lanillis	case
30	Lanillis	Lanillis	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 back	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	cabbage's pockets		full property	tree rules
2	order	past	Bellah	Bellah's stick		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent stick=Recipient clause=Topic
3	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bellah's stick not said here	a winged carriage		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	wing	participle				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	bear	to-infinitive	Bellah's stick not said here	cabbage		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	rescue	past · perfect · passive		the men		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=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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