The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 65

Four-and-twenty pretty and graceful nymphs advanced toward him, holding garlands of flowers, with which they barred the way.

Who acts: graceful nymphs, Nymphs · What happens: advance, hold, bar · To what, where: garlands, way

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (graceful nymphs, Nymphs), 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	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 twenty	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Four	conj
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 twenty	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 advanced	cc
8	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nymphs	amod
9	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 advanced	nsubj
10	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 twenty	conj
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 advanced	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 holding	punct
14	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 advanced	advcl
15	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 holding	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 flowers	case
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 garlands	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 barred	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 barred	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 barred	nsubj
22	barred	bar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 holding	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 barred	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Four	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	advance	past	graceful nymphs		toward King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward he=Initial_Location
2	hold	gerund	graceful nymphs not said here	garlands of flowers		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garland=Theme
3	bar	past	Nymphs = nymph	the way		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=Theme

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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