The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 90

So the next day the Fairy appeared with a huge barrel full of the feathers of all sorts of birds.

Who acts: next day · What happens: appear, sort · To what, where: birds

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (next day), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 appeared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 barrel	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 barrel	amod
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 barrel	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 feathers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feathers	det
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 full	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sorts	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sorts	det
18	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feathers	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 birds	case
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sorts	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the next day					with a huge barrel	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sort			birds					nom sort «cognition 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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