The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 27

Instantly out came swarms of little men and women, no taller than her finger, and scattered themselves all over the meadow, singing and dancing, and playing the merriest games, so that at first Graciosa was delighted and watched them with much amusement.

What happens: come, scatter, sing, play, be, watch · To what, where: swarms, meadow, merriest games, Graciosa, games

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Instantly	instantly	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swarms	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 women	cc
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 men	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taller	punct
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 taller	advmod
12	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 came	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 finger	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 finger	nmod:poss
15	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taller	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scattered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scattered	cc
18	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 scattered	obj
20	all	all	ADV	_	23 meadow	advmod
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 meadow	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meadow	det
23	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scattered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 singing	punct
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 scattered	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dancing	cc
27	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 singing	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 playing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 playing	cc
30	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 games	det
32	merriest	merry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 games	amod
33	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 playing	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 delighted	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 delighted	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 Graciosa	case
38	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 Graciosa	advmod
39	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 delighted	obl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 delighted	cop
41	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 watched	cc
43	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 watched	obj
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 amusement	case
46	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 amusement	amod
47	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 watched	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	swarms of little men and women		instantly, out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swarm=Theme
2	scatter	past	swarms = swarm	the meadow		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme over meadow=Destination
3	sing speech: express	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	gerund	the merriest games			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
5	is	past		Graciosa	delighted property	tree rules
6	watch	past	games = game		with much amusement	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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