The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 82

Then, bending over the basket, she whispered some magic words, and instantly a table covered with fruits and cakes stood on the ground before them.

Who acts: godmother, table · What happens: bend, whisper, cover, stand · To what, where: basket, magic words, table, ground

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, table), 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 bending	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 whispered	advcl
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 basket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bending	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bending	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 whispered	nsubj
9	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 words	det
11	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 whispered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stood	cc
15	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	23 stood	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	nsubj
18	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 table	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 fruits	case
20	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 covered	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cakes	cc
22	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fruits	conj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whispered	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	gerund	godmother not said here		the basket	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over basket=Location
2	whisper speech: assert	past	godmother	some magic words				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	cover	participle		a table not said here			with fruits and cakes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fruit=Theme
4	stand	past	a table		the ground	before cakes = cake	instantly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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