The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 21

Towards midnight there was a rush of wings, and the eight pea-hens settled on the tree, while the ninth became a maiden, and ran to greet the prince.

Who acts: rush, ninth · What happens: be, settle, become, run, greet, rush · To what, where: pea hens, tree, prince, wings

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rush, ninth), 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	Towards	towards	ADV	_	2 midnight	advmod
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	obl
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rush	det
6	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wings	case
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rush	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 settled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 settled	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hens	det
12	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pea	nummod
13	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hens	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 pea	punct
15	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 settled	nsubj:pass
16	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 was	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 tree	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 settled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 became	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 became	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ninth	det
23	ninth	ninth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 settled	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 maiden	det
26	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 became	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ran	cc
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 became	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 greet	mark
31	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ran	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 prince	det
33	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 greet	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a rush of wings			there	midnight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	settle	participle · passive		the pea hens		the tree			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
3	become	past	the ninth					maiden property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	run	past	the ninth not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	the ninth not said here		the prince				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
6	rush			wings					nom rush «act transitive»: of=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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