The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 68

Then she stooped and gathered up the ashes, and scattered them to the four winds, so that they might blow over fresh lands and fresh seas, and nothing remain of them.

Who acts: heap, ashes, nothing · What happens: stoop, gather up, scatter, blow over, remain · To what, where: ashes, fresh lands

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heap, ashes, nothing), 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 stooped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stooped	nsubj
3	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gathered	cc
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stooped	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gathered	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ashes	det
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gathered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scattered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scattered	cc
11	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stooped	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 scattered	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 winds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 winds	det
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 winds	nummod
16	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scattered	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blow	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 blow	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 blow	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 blow	aux
22	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 scattered	parataxis
23	over	over	ADV	_	24 fresh	advmod
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lands	amod
25	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 blow	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seas	cc
27	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seas	amod
28	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lands	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remain	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 remain	cc
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 remain	nsubj
32	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stooped	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remain	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stoop	past	heap		then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gather up	past	heap not said here	the ashes			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
3	scatter	past	heap not said here	ashes = ash		to the four winds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	blow over	might	ashes = ash	fresh lands and fresh seas			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent land=Patient
5	remain	present	nothing			of ashes = ash	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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