The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 73

Mayblossom was just about to follow their example when a terrific croaking, as of an immense army of crows, rooks, ravens, screech-owls, and all birds of ill-omen was heard, and at the same instant a huge owl skimmed up to the Princess, and threw over her a scarf woven of spiders’ webs and embroidered with bats’ wings.

Who acts: Mayblossom, kingdoms · What happens: be, hear, skim up, throw, embroider, exemplify · To what, where: birds, huge owl, scarf woven

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Mayblossom, kingdoms), 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	Mayblossom	Mayblossom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 follow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 follow	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 about	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 follow	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 example	nmod:poss
8	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 croaking	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 croaking	det
11	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 croaking	amod
12	croaking	croaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 army	punct
14	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 army	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 army	det
17	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 army	amod
18	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 crows	case
20	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 army	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rooks	punct
22	rooks	rook	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 crows	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ravens	punct
24	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 crows	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 owls	punct
26	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 owls	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 screech	punct
28	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 crows	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 heard	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 heard	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 birds	det
32	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 heard	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 omen	case
34	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 omen	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 ill	punct
36	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 birds	nmod
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 heard	aux:pass
38	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 follow	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 instant	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 instant	cc
41	at	at	ADP	_	44 instant	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 instant	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 instant	amod
44	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heard	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 owl	det
46	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 owl	amod
47	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 instant	appos
48	skimmed	skim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 owl	acl
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 skimmed	compound:prt
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 Princess	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Princess	det
52	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 skimmed	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 threw	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 threw	cc
55	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 owl	parataxis
56	over	over	ADP	_	57 her	case
57	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 threw	obl
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 woven	det
59	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 woven	compound
60	woven	woven	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 threw	obj
61	of	of	ADP	_	64 webs	case
62	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 webs	nmod:poss
63	’	's	PART	_	62 spiders	case
64	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 woven	nmod
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 embroidered	cc
66	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 webs	conj
67	with	with	ADP	_	70 wings	case
68	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 wings	nmod:poss
69	’	's	PART	_	68 bats	case
70	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 embroidered	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mayblossom		as a immense army of crows and rooks and ravens and screech owls; a terrific croaking obl; about, follow property	tree rules
2	hear	past · passive		all birds of ill omen		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	skim up	participle		a huge owl not said here	to the Princess	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
4	throw	past		a scarf woven of spiders's webs	over Princess	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent woven=Theme over she=Destination
5	embroider	participle			with bats's wings	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wing=Theme
6	exemplify		kingdoms = kingdom			nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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