The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 65

It travelled for a time in the sky, and then it sank down and hovered over a large vegetable garden surrounded by walls, so that he came safely to the ground amidst cabbages and vegetables.

Who acts: little, Hunter · What happens: travel, sink down, hover, surround, come · To what, where: sky, large vegetable garden, ground

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 (little, Hunter), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sank	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sank	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sank	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sank	nsubj
13	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	parataxis
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 sank	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hovered	cc
16	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sank	conj
17	over	over	ADP	_	21 garden	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 garden	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 garden	amod
20	vegetable	vegetable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 garden	amod
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hovered	obl
22	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 garden	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 walls	case
24	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 surrounded	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 came	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sank	conj
30	safely	safely	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	amidst	amidst	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cabbages	amod
35	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ground	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 vegetables	cc
37	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 cabbages	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	little		the sky	time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Trajectory
2	sink down	past	little			then	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	hover	past	little not said here		a large vegetable garden			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over garden=Location
4	surround	participle		a large vegetable garden not said here			by walls	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	Hunter		the ground and amidst cabbages and vegetables		safely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_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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