The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 128

So the dove came flying in through the window and changed itself into Jack again, and told her all as it had happened.

Who acts: dove, it · What happens: come, fly in, change, tell, happen · To what, where: window, dove, Jack, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dove, it), 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	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dove	det
3	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 flying	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flying	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 changed	cc
11	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 changed	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 Jack	case
14	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 changed	obl
15	again	again	ADV	_	11 changed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	all	all	ADV	_	24 happened	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 happened	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 happened	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 happened	aux
24	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 told	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the dove						tree rules
2	fly in	gerund	the dove not said here			the window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
3	change	past	the dove not said here	dove			again	into Jack result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into jack=Result
4	tell speech: assert	past	the dove not said here		Princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	happen	past · perfect	it					all property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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