The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 79

In the twinkling of an eye the four hairs changed into four tailors, of whom the first carried a cabbage, the second a pair of scissors, the third a needle, and the fourth an iron.

Who acts: four hairs, first, third, fourth · What happens: change, carry, needle, iron · To what, where: twinkling, cabbage

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 (four hairs, first, third, fourth), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 twinkling	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twinkling	det
3	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 changed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 eye	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twinkling	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hairs	det
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hairs	nummod
9	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 changed	nsubj
10	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 tailors	case
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 tailors	nummod
13	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 changed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 whom	case
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 carried	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 first	det
18	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 carried	nsubj
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 changed	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cabbage	det
21	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pair	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 second	det
24	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 pair	amod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pair	det
26	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cabbage	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 scissors	case
28	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pair	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 needle	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 third	det
31	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 needle	nsubj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 needle	det
33	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cabbage	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 iron	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 iron	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fourth	det
37	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 iron	nsubj
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 iron	det
39	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past	the four hairs		the twinkling of a eye	into four tailors result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into tailor=Result
2	carry	past	the first	a cabbage and a second pair of scissors and a needle			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cabbage=Theme of whom=Initial_Location
3	needle		the third				tree rules
4	iron		the fourth				tree rules

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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