The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 82

No sooner were they uncorked than the blue vapours poured out and became transformed to living people, in whom the lady joyfully recognised her many servants and attendants.

Who acts: lady · What happens: uncork, pour out, transform, recognise · To what, where: vessels, blue vapours, couple

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 (lady), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 uncorked	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uncorked	aux:pass
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 uncorked	nsubj
5	uncorked	uncork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 vapours	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vapours	det
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vapours	amod
9	vapours	vapour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 uncorked	obl
10	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 vapours	acl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 poured	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 transformed	cc
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 transformed	aux:pass
14	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 uncorked	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 people	case
16	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 transformed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whom	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 transformed	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lady	det
22	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 recognised	nsubj
23	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	24 recognised	advmod
24	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	acl:relcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 recognised	obj
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 servants	amod
27	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 recognised	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 attendants	cc
29	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 servants	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 uncorked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	uncork	past · passive		vessels = vessel	than the blue vapours; soon property	tree rules
2	pour out	participle		the blue vapours not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	transform	past · passive			to living people	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»
4	recognise	past	the lady	couple	joyfully property	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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