The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 58

And then began a great dispute between Patypata, Grabugeon, and Tintin, and they came to high words, until at last Grabugeon, who was quicker than the others, ran up to the very top of the nearest tree, and let herself fall, head first, to the ground, and there she lay--quite dead!

Who acts: sisters, last Grabugeon, Grabugeon · What happens: begin, come, be, run up, let, fall · To what, where: great dispute, high words, last Grabugeon, Grabugeon, head

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, last Grabugeon, Grabugeon), 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	_	3 began	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dispute	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dispute	amod
6	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 Patypata	case
8	Patypata	Patypata	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Grabugeon	punct
10	Grabugeon	Grabugeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Patypata	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Tintin	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Tintin	cc
13	Tintin	Tintin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Patypata	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 words	case
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 words	amod
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ran	punct
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 ran	mark
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 Grabugeon	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Grabugeon	amod
25	Grabugeon	Grabugeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 ran	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 quicker	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 quicker	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 quicker	cop
29	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 Grabugeon	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 others	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 others	det
32	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 quicker	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Grabugeon	punct
34	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 ran	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 top	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 top	det
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 top	advmod
39	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ran	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 tree	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 tree	det
42	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	43 tree	amod
43	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 top	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 let	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 let	cc
46	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
47	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 let	obj
48	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 let	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 head	punct
50	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fall	obl
51	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	48 fall	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ground	punct
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 ground	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 ground	det
55	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fall	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 lay	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 lay	cc
58	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 lay	advmod
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 lay	nsubj
60	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
61	--	--	PUNCT	_	63 dead	punct
62	quite	quite	ADV	_	63 dead	advmod
63	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 lay	advcl
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past		a great dispute		then	between Patypata and Grabugeon and Tintin	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Eventuality
2	come	past	sisters = sister		high words			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to word=Initial_Location
3	is	past	last Grabugeon				than the others; quick property	tree rules
4	run up	past	sisters = sister not said here		last Grabugeon		to the top of the nearest tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result
5	let	infinitive		Grabugeon				tree rules
6	fall	infinitive	Grabugeon not said here	head			to the ground; first property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
7	lie	past	Grabugeon		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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