The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 81

In one instant the gates flew open, and all the dwellers inside fell sound asleep.

Who acts: gates, dwellers · What happens: fly, fall, sound · To what, where: one instant

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gates, dwellers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 instant	nummod
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gates	det
5	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flew	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 dwellers	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dwellers	det
12	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fell	nsubj
13	inside	inside	ADV	_	12 dwellers	advmod
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
15	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fell	xcomp
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sound	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the gates	one instant	open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location
2	fall	past	all dwellers			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	sound	infinitive	all dwellers not said here		asleep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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