The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 28

She then had recourse to the golden pomegranate, and on opening it found that all the seeds were as many little violins which flew up in the vaulted roof and at once began playing melodiously.

Who acts: Fairy, seeds, many little violins · What happens: have, open, find, be, fly up, vault · To what, where: recourse, vaulted roof

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Fairy, seeds, many little violins), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 pomegranate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pomegranate	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pomegranate	amod
8	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 opening	mark
12	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 found	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 opening	obj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 violins	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 seeds	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 seeds	det
18	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 violins	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 violins	cop
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 violins	case
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 violins	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 violins	amod
23	violins	violin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 found	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 flew	nsubj
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 violins	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 flew	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 roof	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 roof	det
29	vaulted	vault	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 roof	amod
30	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 began	obl
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 flew	conj
35	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 began	xcomp
36	melodiously	melodiously	ADV	_	35 playing	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Fairy	recourse		then	to the golden pomegranate	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient
2	open	gerund		recourse				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	find	past	Fairy not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	all seeds				as many little violins	tree rules
5	fly up	past	many little violins		the vaulted roof			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in roof=Location
6	vault	participle						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	past	many little violins not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	play	gerund	many little violins not said here				melodiously property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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