The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 183

And the fluff flew into the Princess’s nose, and into her mouth, and starting up she sneezed and coughed, and the ring fell out of her mouth on to the coverlet.

Who acts: fluff, Princess, ring · What happens: fly, start up, sneeze, cough, fall · To what, where: nose, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fluff, Princess, ring), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 flew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fluff	det
3	fluff	fluff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 nose	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nose	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Princess	case
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mouth	cc
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 starting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 starting	cc
17	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flew	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 starting	compound:prt
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sneezed	nsubj
20	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 starting	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 coughed	cc
22	coughed	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sneezed	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ring	det
26	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 mouth	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 mouth	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mouth	nmod:poss
31	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 coverlet	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 coverlet	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 coverlet	det
35	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the fluff		into the Princess's nose result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into nose=Result
2	start up	gerund	the fluff not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	sneeze	past	Princess			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cough	past	Princess not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fall	past	the ring	Princess's mouth	on the coverlet	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out mouth=Location

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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