The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 80

“And in an instant they came tumbling in one over another, and yet they were neither dusty nor spoilt, and the Queen found them quite as good as she had fancied them.

Who acts: Apricots, Queen · What happens: come, tumble, be, find, fancy · To what, where: instant, Apricots, Queen

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apricots, Queen), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 instant	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 instant	det
5	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 came	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tumbling	obl
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dusty	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dusty	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 dusty	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dusty	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dusty	cop
18	neither	neither	ADV	_	19 dusty	advmod
19	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	conj
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 spoilt	cc
21	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dusty	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Queen	det
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	obj
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 good	advmod
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 good	advmod
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 found	xcomp
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 fancied	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fancied	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fancied	aux
34	fancied	fancy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 good	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fancied	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Apricots = apricot		a instant			tree rules
2	tumble in a quote	gerund	Apricots = apricot not said here				in one over another	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in one=Attribute
3	is in a quote	past	Apricots = apricot			yet	dusty, neither property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		Apricots = apricot not said here					tree rules
5	find in a quote	past	the Queen	Apricots = apricot			good property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
6	fancy in a quote	past · perfect · passive		Queen				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 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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