The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 48

So he wrapped her round in his cloak and wished themselves to the granite mountain, and in an instant there they were, sitting on it!

Who acts: Hunter, birds · What happens: wrap, wish, sit · To what, where: love, cloak, birds, instant

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (Hunter, birds), 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	_	3 wrapped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrapped	nsubj
3	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrapped	obj
5	round	round	ADV	_	3 wrapped	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cloak	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cloak	nmod:poss
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrapped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wished	cc
10	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrapped	conj
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 wished	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 mountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountain	det
14	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mountain	compound
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wished	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sitting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sitting	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 instant	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 instant	det
20	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sitting	obl
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 instant	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sitting	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sitting	aux
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sitting	punct
25	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 wished	advcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sitting	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wrapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wrap	past	Hunter	love	Hunter's cloak	round property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cloak=Destination
2	wish	past	Hunter not said here	birds = bird		to the granite mountain	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	birds = bird		a instant	on instant	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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