The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 8

Then he gave three strokes of his wand upon the barrel, and all the feathers flew out in a cloud and settled down in neat little separate heaps all round the room.

Who acts: Percinet, feathers · What happens: give, fly out, settle down, stroke · To what, where: three strokes, cloud, neat little separate heaps, wand

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: who acts (Percinet, feathers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 strokes	nummod
5	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wand	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wand	nmod:poss
8	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strokes	nmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 barrel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 feathers	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feathers	det
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 flew	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 cloud	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cloud	det
21	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 settled	cc
23	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flew	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 settled	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 heaps	case
26	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 heaps	amod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 heaps	amod
28	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 heaps	amod
29	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 settled	obl
30	all	all	ADV	_	33 room	advmod
31	round	round	ADP	_	33 room	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 room	det
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 settled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Percinet	three strokes of Percinet's wand		then	upon the barrel	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme
2	fly out	past	all feathers		a cloud			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location
3	settle down	past	all feathers not said here		neat little separate heaps		round the room	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	stroke			Percinet's wand				nom stroke «act 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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