The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 46

At this the witch became so furious that she danced about and knocked everything to pieces that she could lay her hands upon, so that the splinters flew about the ears of the prince and princess, who now stood there in her own beautiful shape.

Who acts: witch, splinters, princess · What happens: become, dance, knock, lay, fly, stand · To what, where: this, everything, pieces, hands, own beautiful shape

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, splinters, princess), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 became	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 furious	advmod
7	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 danced	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 danced	nsubj
10	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 furious	advcl
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 danced	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knocked	cc
13	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 knocked	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 pieces	case
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 knocked	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 lay	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lay	aux
20	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knocked	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lay	obj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 lay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flew	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 flew	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 splinters	det
28	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flew	nsubj
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lay	advcl
30	about	about	ADP	_	32 ears	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ears	det
32	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flew	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 prince	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prince	det
35	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ears	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 princess	cc
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 prince	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stood	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 stood	nsubj
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 stood	advmod
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 princess	acl
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 stood	advmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	47 shape	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 shape	nmod:poss
45	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 shape	amod
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 shape	amod
47	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the witch		this		furious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	dance	past	witch				about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	knock	past	the witch not said here	everything	pieces			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to piece=Destination
4	lay	could	witch	witch's hands				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result
5	fly	past	the splinters				about the ears of the prince and princess	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ear=Location
6	stand	past	princess		witch's own beautiful shape; there	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shape=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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