The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 182

Then she brought him water in a petal, which he drank, after which he related to her how he had torn one of his wings on a bramble, so that he could not fly as fast as the other swallows, who had flown far away to warmer lands.

Who acts: snow, petal, son, other swallows · What happens: bring, drink, relate, tear, not fly, fly · To what, where: water, son, petal, snow, one

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, petal, son, other swallows), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 petal	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 petal	det
8	petal	petal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drank	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 drank	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drank	nsubj
12	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 petal	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 related	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 related	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 related	nsubj
17	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 related	obl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 torn	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 torn	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 torn	aux
23	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 related	advcl
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 torn	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wings	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wings	nmod:poss
27	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 bramble	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bramble	det
30	bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wings	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fly	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 fly	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fly	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 fly	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 fly	advmod
37	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 torn	conj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 fast	advmod
39	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 fly	advmod
40	as	as	ADP	_	43 swallows	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 swallows	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 swallows	amod
43	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 fast	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 flown	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 flown	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 flown	aux
47	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 swallows	conj
48	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 away	advmod
49	away	away	ADV	_	47 flown	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 lands	case
51	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 lands	amod
52	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 away	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	snow	water	son	a petal	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination water=Theme
2	drink	past	a petal						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	relate	past	son		snow				vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to she=Co-Theme
4	tear	past · perfect	son	one of son's wings on a bramble					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme
5	not fly	could	son					fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fly	past · perfect	the other swallows					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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