The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 79

As soon as this was done the stone gently rose through the air and transported them into the upper hall, whence they easily carried the box into the outer air.

Who acts: boxes · What happens: do, rise, transport, carry · To what, where: this, air, boxes, upper hall, box, outer air

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boxes), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 rose	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soon	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obj
9	gently	gently	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 transported	cc
15	transported	transport	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rose	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 transported	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 hall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hall	det
19	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hall	amod
20	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 transported	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
22	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	25 carried	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carried	nsubj
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 carried	advmod
25	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rose	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 box	det
27	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 air	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 air	det
30	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 air	amod
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this		gently property	tree rules
2	rise	past			the air	soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Location
3	transport	past		boxes = box	the upper hall		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	carry	past	boxes = box	the box	the outer air	easily, whence property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme

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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