The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 131

And with a wave of her wand she turned the poor little cottage into a splendid palace, full of treasures; only the two stools and the straw bed remained just as they were, to remind him of his former poverty.

Who acts: madam, two stools, stools · What happens: turn, remain, remind, wave · To what, where: poor little cottage, splendid palace, Bruno, wand

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, two stools, stools), 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	_	9 turned	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 wave	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wand	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wand	nmod:poss
7	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wave	nmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cottage	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cottage	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cottage	amod
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 palace	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 palace	det
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 palace	amod
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 full	punct
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 palace	amod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 treasures	case
21	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 remained	punct
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 stools	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stools	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 stools	nummod
26	stools	stool	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 remained	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bed	det
29	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bed	compound
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stools	conj
31	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
32	just	just	ADV	_	38 remind	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 remind	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 remind	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 remind	aux
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 remind	punct
37	to	to	PART	_	38 remind	mark
38	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 remained	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 remind	iobj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 poverty	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 poverty	nmod:poss
42	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 poverty	amod
43	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 remind	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	madam	the poor little cottage		a splendid palace	with a wave of madam's wand	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme into palace=Trajectory
2	remain	past	the two stools and the straw bed					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remind speech: other	past	stools = stool		Bruno		of Bruno's former poverty	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of poverty=Topic
4	wave			madam's wand				nom wave «event transitive»: of=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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