The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 68

But hardly had she plucked the flowers when her brothers were turned into twelve ravens, who flew croaking over the wood, and the house and garden vanished also.

Who acts: girl, twelve ravens, house · What happens: pluck, turn, fly, croak, vanish · To what, where: flowers, brothers, twelve ravens, wood

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, twelve ravens, house), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 plucked	cc
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 plucked	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plucked	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plucked	nsubj
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plucked	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	aux:pass
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flowers	acl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 ravens	case
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 ravens	nummod
15	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flew	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 flew	nsubj
18	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ravens	acl:relcl
19	croaking	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 flew	xcomp
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 croaking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 vanished	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 vanished	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 vanished	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 garden	cc
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	conj
29	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plucked	conj
30	also	also	ADV	_	29 vanished	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pluck	past	girl	the flowers		hardly property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
2	turn	past · passive		girl's brothers	twelve ravens		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into raven=Trajectory
3	fly	past	twelve ravens				tree rules
4	croak	gerund	twelve ravens not said here		the wood		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	vanish	past	the house and garden				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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