The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 89

But before they left their shelter she broke off a little bit of the rock, spoke some magic words over it, and threw it in the direction her mother was coming from.

Who acts: mountains, girl, mother · What happens: leave, break off, speak, throw, come · To what, where: shelter, little bit, magic words, rock, direction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains, girl, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 broke	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 left	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 broke	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shelter	nmod:poss
6	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 broke	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obl:unmarked
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 rock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bit	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spoke	punct
17	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 broke	conj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 words	det
19	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 words	amod
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spoke	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 words	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 threw	cc
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 broke	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 direction	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 direction	det
29	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	obl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 coming	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 coming	aux
33	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 direction	acl:relcl
34	from	from	ADP	_	33 coming	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	leave	past	mountains = mountain	mountains's shelter		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme
2	break off	past	girl	a little bit of the rock		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	speak speech: other	past	girl not said here	some magic words	rock	tree rules
4	throw	past	girl not said here	shelter	the direction	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in direction=Destination
5	come	past · progressive	girl's mother	the direction not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=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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