The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 246

And out of each flower came a lady and gentleman, each so tiny and pretty that it was a pleasure to see them.

Who acts: lady · What happens: come, be, see · To what, where: flower, pleasure, ladies

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 (lady), 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	_	6 came	cc
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 flower	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flower	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gentleman	cc
10	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lady	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tiny	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 tiny	nsubj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 tiny	advmod
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	appos
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pretty	cc
16	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tiny	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 pleasure	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pleasure	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pleasure	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pleasure	det
21	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tiny	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 pleasure	acl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	a lady and gentleman		each flower	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out flower=Initial_Location
2	is a	past		a pleasure		tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	a lady and gentleman not said here	ladies = lady		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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