The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 230

Vines hung about the high pillars; there were many swallows’ nests, and in one of these lived the swallow who was carrying Thumbelina.

Who acts: Vines, nests, one, swallow · What happens: hang, be, live, carry · To what, where: swallow, Thumbelina

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 (Vines, nests, one, 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	Vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hung	nsubj
2	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 pillars	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pillars	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pillars	amod
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hung	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hung	conj
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 swallows	amod
11	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nests	nmod:poss
12	’	's	PART	_	11 swallows	case
13	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lived	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 lived	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 these	case
19	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 one	nmod
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hung	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 swallow	det
22	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 carrying	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 carrying	aux
25	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 swallow	acl:relcl
26	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 carrying	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past	Vines			about the high pillars	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about pillar=Location
2	be	past	many swallows's nests		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	past	one of these	the swallow			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme swallow=Location
4	carry	past · progressive	the swallow	Thumbelina			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumbelina=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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