The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 43

The conversation was at this point, and bid fair to last some time longer, when one of the fairies appeared in her ivory car, accompanied by a beautiful woman past her early youth.

Who acts: conversation, one · What happens: be, bid, last, appear, accompany · To what, where: point, ivory car

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 conversation	det
2	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 point	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 point	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 point	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 point	det
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bid	cc
9	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 point	parataxis
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bid	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 last	mark
12	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bid	xcomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 last	obl:unmarked
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 last	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 appeared	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 appeared	mark
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 appeared	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 fairies	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fairies	det
21	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bid	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 car	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 car	nmod:poss
25	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 car	compound
26	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appeared	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 accompanied	punct
28	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 car	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 woman	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 woman	det
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 accompanied	obl:agent
33	past	past	ADP	_	36 youth	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 youth	nmod:poss
35	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 youth	amod
36	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 woman	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the conversation		this point			tree rules
2	bid	past					fair property	tree rules
3	last	to-infinitive				time	long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	appear	past	one of the fairies		Serpentine's ivory car			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location
5	accompany	participle		Serpentine's ivory car not said here				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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