The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 5

At the word of the Fairy the rocks and stones rose and built themselves into a beautiful castle, and before sunset it was all furnished inside, and left nothing to be desired.

Who acts: rocks · What happens: rise, build, furnish, leave, desire, word · To what, where: word, rocks, beautiful castle, Fairy, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rose	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Fairy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rocks	det
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rose	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stones	cc
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rocks	conj
11	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 built	cc
13	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rose	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 built	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 castle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 castle	det
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 castle	amod
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 built	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 furnished	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 furnished	cc
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 sunset	case
22	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 furnished	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 furnished	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 furnished	aux:pass
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 furnished	advmod
26	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 rose	conj
27	inside	inside	ADV	_	26 furnished	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 left	cc
30	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rose	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 left	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	34 desired	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 desired	aux:pass
34	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 nothing	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the rocks and stones		the word of the Fairy			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at word=Location
2	build	past	the rocks and stones not said here	rocks = rock	a beautiful castle			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent themselves=Material into castle=Product
3	furnish	past · passive		Fairy		sunset	all, inside property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	leave	past	the rocks and stones not said here	nothing				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
5	desire	to-infinitive · passive	the rocks and stones not said here	nothing not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»
6	word			the Fairy				nom word «communication 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 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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