The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 85

Once there, she bade him transform himself back into a stick, and with it in her hand she stepped into the blue boat, which conducted her to the palace of shells.

Who acts: Bellah, blue boat · What happens: bade, transform back, step, conduct · To what, where: man, stick, hand, blue boat, Bellah, palace

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 (Bellah, blue boat), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 there	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 bade	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bade	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bade	nsubj
5	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bade	obj
7	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bade	xcomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 transform	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 transform	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 stick	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stick	det
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transform	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 it	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 it	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bade	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hand	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 it	nmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stepped	nsubj
21	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hand	acl:relcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 boat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boat	det
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boat	amod
25	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stepped	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 conducted	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 conducted	nsubj
28	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 boat	acl:relcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 conducted	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 conducted	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 shells	case
34	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 palace	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bade	past	Bellah	man	there	with isle	tree rules
2	transform back	infinitive	Bellah not said here	man		into a stick result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into stick=Result
3	step	past	Bellah	Bellah's hand not said here	the blue boat		tree rules
4	conduct	past	the blue boat	Bellah	the palace of shells		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination

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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