The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 115

And when she had made one little heap of feathers, she sighed so deeply that they all blew apart again.

Who acts: HELENA, feathers · What happens: make, sigh, blow apart · To what, where: one little heap

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HELENA, feathers), 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	_	5 made	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 heap	nummod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heap	amod
8	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 feathers	case
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heap	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sighed	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sighed	nsubj
13	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 deeply	advmod
15	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	13 sighed	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 blew	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 blew	nsubj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 they	det
19	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sighed	advcl
20	apart	apart	ADV	_	19 blew	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 blew	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	HELENA	one little heap of feathers			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Product
2	sigh	past	HELENA			deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	blow apart	past	feathers = feather		again	apart property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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 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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