The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 5

But then there came a whirlwind and sent all the feathers flying, and swept them along the floor into a heap, where they lay as if they were trampled together.

Who acts: feathers · What happens: come, send, fly, sweep, lay, trample · To what, where: whirlwind, feathers, heap

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 came	expl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 whirlwind	det
6	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 feathers	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feathers	det
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	obj
12	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 feathers	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swept	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swept	cc
15	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swept	obj
17	along	along	ADP	_	19 floor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floor	det
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swept	obl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 heap	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 heap	det
22	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swept	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 lay	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 heap	acl:relcl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 trampled	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 trampled	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 trampled	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 trampled	aux:pass
31	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lay	advcl
32	together	together	ADV	_	31 trampled	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		a whirlwind	there	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whirlwind=Theme
2	send	past		all feathers				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
3	fly	gerund	all feathers not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sweep	past		feathers = feather	a heap		along the floor	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into heap=Destination
5	lay	present	feathers = feather					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	trample	past · passive		feathers = feather			together property	tree rules

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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