The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 52

As the Daimio drew near he flung a great handful of ashes over the trees, but no buds or flowers followed the action: instead, the ashes were all blown back into the eyes of the Daimio and his warriors, till they cried out from pain.

Who acts: Daimio, buds, ashes · What happens: draw, fling, follow, blow back, cry out · To what, where: great handful, trees, action, ashes, eyes, pain

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 (Daimio, buds, 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Daimio	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Daimio	det
3	Daimio	Daimio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 flung	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flung	nsubj
7	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 handful	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 handful	amod
10	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flung	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 ashes	case
12	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 handful	nmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 trees	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 followed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 followed	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 buds	det
19	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 followed	nsubj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 flowers	cc
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 buds	conj
22	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 action	det
24	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 followed	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 blown	punct
26	instead	instead	ADV	_	32 blown	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 instead	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ashes	det
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 blown	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 blown	aux:pass
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 blown	advmod
32	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 drew	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 blown	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 eyes	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 eyes	det
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 blown	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Daimio	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Daimio	det
39	Daimio	Daimio	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 eyes	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 warriors	cc
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 warriors	nmod:poss
42	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 Daimio	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 cried	punct
44	till	till	SCONJ	_	46 cried	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 cried	nsubj
46	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 blown	conj
47	out	out	ADP	_	46 cried	compound:prt
48	from	from	ADP	_	49 pain	case
49	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cried	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past				as the Daimio	tree rules
2	fling	past	Daimio	a great handful of ashes	the trees		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme over tree=Destination
3	follow	past	no buds or flowers	the action			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme
4	blow back	past · passive		the ashes	the eyes of the Daimio and Daimio's warriors	all, instead property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into eye=Product
5	cry out speech: express	past	ashes = ash		pain		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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