The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 125

They set out at once for the brook, and in the twinkling of an eye the dragon had filled the whole twelve, carried them into the house, and brought them back to Stan.

Who acts: things · What happens: set out, fill, carry, bring back · To what, where: dragon, twinkling, things, house, Stan

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 set	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 brook	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brook	det
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 filled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 filled	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 twinkling	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 twinkling	det
13	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 filled	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 eye	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 eye	det
16	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twinkling	nmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dragon	det
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 filled	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 filled	aux
20	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 set	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 twelve	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 twelve	amod
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 filled	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
25	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carried	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 brought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 brought	cc
32	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 carried	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	obj
34	back	back	ADV	_	32 brought	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 Stan	case
36	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 brought	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	things = thing				for the brook	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fill	past · perfect · passive		the dragon		the twinkling of a eye		tree rules
3	carry	past		things = thing		the house		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	bring back	past		things = thing	Stan			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to stan=Destination

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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