The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 122

So Helena lay down, and when she awoke all the feathers were sorted into little bundles; but when she turned to thank the good Fairy she had vanished.

Who acts: Helena · What happens: lie down, awake, sort, turn, thank, vanish · To what, where: feathers, little bundles, good Fairy

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
2	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 awoke	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 awoke	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 awoke	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 awoke	nsubj
9	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 feathers	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feathers	det
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sorted	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sorted	aux:pass
14	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 awoke	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 bundles	case
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bundles	amod
17	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sorted	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 turned	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 thank	mark
24	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 turned	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Fairy	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Fairy	amod
27	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thank	obj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 vanished	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 vanished	aux
30	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 Fairy	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Helena			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	awake	past	HELENA				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sort	past · passive		all feathers		into little bundles goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into bundle=Goal
4	turn	past	HELENA				tree rules
5	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	HELENA not said here		the good Fairy		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
6	vanish	past · perfect	HELENA	the good Fairy not said here			tree rules

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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