The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 88

Immediately the charm worked, and she became a donkey, and ran out to join the old witch, and the dish with the salad in it fell to the ground.

Who acts: charm, dish · What happens: work, become, run out, join, fall · To what, where: donkey, old witch

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 (charm, dish), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 worked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 charm	det
3	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 became	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 donkey	det
10	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 join	mark
16	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ran	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 witch	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 witch	amod
19	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 join	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dish	det
23	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	nsubj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 salad	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 salad	det
26	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dish	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 salad	nmod
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	past	the charm		immediately property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	charm	a donkey		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	run out	past	the charm not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	join	to-infinitive	the charm not said here	the old witch		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient
5	fall	past	the dish with the salad in salad		to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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 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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