The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 87

My cradle was placed between the old fairies, who loaded me with caresses, and away we whirled through the air to a tower which they had built on purpose for me.

Who acts: old fairies, we · What happens: place, load, whirl, build · To what, where: cradle, me, air, tower, purpose

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 (old fairies, we), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cradle	nmod:poss
2	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	aux:pass
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	8 fairies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairies	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fairies	amod
8	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 placed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loaded	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 loaded	nsubj
11	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fairies	acl:relcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 loaded	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 caresses	case
14	caresses	caress	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 loaded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whirled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 whirled	cc
17	away	away	ADV	_	19 whirled	advmod
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 whirled	nsubj
19	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	conj
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whirled	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 tower	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tower	det
25	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whirled	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 built	nsubj:pass
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 built	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 built	aux
29	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 tower	acl:relcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 purpose	case
31	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 built	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 built	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		My cradle			between the old fairies	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between fairy=Destination
2	load	past	the old fairies		me		with caresses	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with caress=Theme
3	whirl	past	we			the air	to a tower; away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through air=Source to tower=Trajectory
4	build	past · perfect · passive		a tower		purpose	for me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for i=Beneficiary

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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