The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 74

Then she went home and planted the barley-corn; immediately there grew out of it a large and beautiful flower, which looked like a tulip, but the petals were tightly closed as if it were still only a bud.

Who acts: woman, large flower, corn · What happens: go, plant, grow out, look, close, be · To what, where: barley corn, corn, petals

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 (woman, large flower, corn), 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 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 planted	cc
6	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 corn	det
8	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 corn	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 barley	punct
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 planted	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	13 there	advmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 grew	advmod
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 it	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grew	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 flower	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flower	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beautiful	cc
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 large	conj
22	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 looked	nsubj
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flower	acl:relcl
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 tulip	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tulip	det
28	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looked	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 closed	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 closed	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 petals	det
32	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 closed	nsubj:pass
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 closed	aux:pass
34	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	35 closed	advmod
35	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 grew	conj
36	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	43 bud	case
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 as	fixed
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bud	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 bud	cop
40	still	still	ADV	_	43 bud	advmod
41	only	only	ADV	_	43 bud	advmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bud	det
43	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 closed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	woman			then	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plant	past	woman not said here	the barley corn				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
3	grow out	past	woman not said here	corn	there		a large flower obl:unmarked	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	look	past	a large flower				like a tulip	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	close	past · passive		the petals			tightly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	is	past	corn			still	as a bud	tree rules

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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