The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 63

and when she had finished, the horse’s fore legs grew shorter and spread into wings, his hind legs became claws, feathers sprouted all over his body, and she sat on the back of a great bird, which bore her to the summit of the rock.

Who acts: Leon, fore legs, hind legs, claws, great bird · What happens: finish, grow, spread, become, sprout, sit · To what, where: wings, body, back, Leon

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 (Leon, fore legs, hind legs, claws), 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 finished	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 finished	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 horse	case
10	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	compound
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	advcl
13	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grew	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spread	cc
15	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 wings	case
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spread	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 legs	nmod:poss
20	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 legs	amod
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	conj
23	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sprouted	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feathers	punct
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 claws	conj
26	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 became	ccomp
27	all	all	ADV	_	30 body	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 body	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 body	nmod:poss
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprouted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sat	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sprouted	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 back	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 back	det
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sat	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 bird	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bird	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bird	amod
41	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 back	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bore	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 bore	nsubj
44	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bird	acl:relcl
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 bore	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 summit	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 summit	det
48	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bore	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 rock	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 rock	det
51	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 summit	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Leon				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	grow	past	the horse's fore legs			short property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spread	past	the horse's fore legs not said here		wings		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wing=Destination
4	become	past	horse's hind legs				tree rules
5	sprout	past	claws and feathers		horse's body		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over body=Location
6	sit	past	Leon		the back of a great bird		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
7	bear	past	a great bird	Leon		to the summit of the rock	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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