The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 84

This chariot was drawn by flying frogs, and the King easily persuaded Turritella to come out and let him put her into it, then mounting beside her he cried triumphantly--

Who acts: flying frogs, King, Turritella · What happens: draw, fly, persuade, come out, let, put · To what, where: chariot, Turritella, King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flying frogs, King, Turritella), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chariot	det
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drawn	aux:pass
4	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 frogs	case
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 frogs	amod
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawn	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 persuaded	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 persuaded	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 persuaded	nsubj
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 persuaded	advmod
13	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drawn	conj
14	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 persuaded	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 persuaded	xcomp
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mounting	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 mounting	advmod
27	mounting	mount	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 persuaded	advcl
28	beside	beside	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 mounting	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cried	nsubj
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mounting	conj
32	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	_	31 cried	advmod
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · passive	flying frogs	this chariot					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	persuade	past	the King	Turritella				easily property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent turritella=Patient clause=Result
4	come out	to-infinitive	Turritella not said here					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	let	infinitive	Turritella not said here	King					tree rules
6	put	infinitive	King not said here		Turritella	chariot			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal
7	mount	gerund	the King not said here				then	beside Turritella	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside she=Destination
8	cry speech: express	past	King					triumphantly property	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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