The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 40

And as soon as it was in sight he was to climb up all the cherry-trees and sprinkle the ashes on them, and they would soon blossom as they had never blossomed before.

Who acts: procession, man, ashes · What happens: be, sprinkle, blossom, not blossom · To what, where: ashes

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, man, ashes), 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	_	12 climb	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 climb	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	8 sight	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sight	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sight	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 sight	case
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soon	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 climb	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 climb	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 climb	mark
12	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 climb	compound:prt
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 trees	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
16	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 cherry	punct
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 climb	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sprinkle	cc
20	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 climb	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ashes	det
22	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sprinkle	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sprinkle	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blossom	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 blossom	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 blossom	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 blossom	aux
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 blossom	advmod
30	blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 climb	conj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 blossomed	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 blossomed	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 blossomed	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 blossomed	advmod
35	blossomed	blossom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 blossom	advcl
36	before	before	ADV	_	35 blossomed	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	procession		as sight	tree rules
2	is	past	man		climb, soon property	tree rules
3	sprinkle	infinitive	man not said here	the ashes	on ashes = ash	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme on they=Destination
4	blossom	would	ashes = ash		soon property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	not blossom	past · perfect	ashes = ash		before property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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