The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 187

The sun shone brightly down upon her, and the swallow asked her if she would go with him; she could sit upon his back.

Who acts: sun, swallow · What happens: shine, ask, go, sit · To what, where: sun, back

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 (sun, swallow), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shone	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swallow	det
11	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	iobj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sit	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sit	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sit	aux
23	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shone	conj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 back	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 back	nmod:poss
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sit	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun			upon THUMBELINA; down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the swallow	sun			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go a condition, not said to happen	would	sun			with mole	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
4	sit	could	sun		mole's back		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon back=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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