The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 55

and immediately the stick became a smart little horse, with a rosette at each ear and a feather on his forehead.

Who acts: stick · What happens: become · To what, where: smart little horse

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 (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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 became	cc
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 became	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stick	det
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
7	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rosette	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 rosette	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rosette	det
13	rosette	rosette	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 ear	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 ear	det
16	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rosette	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feather	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 feather	det
19	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ear	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 forehead	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 forehead	nmod:poss
22	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feather	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the stick	a smart little horse				immediately property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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