The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 43

After a time, it came to pass that from the two pieces he had planted in the garden two golden lilies grew up, and that his horse had two golden foals, whilst his wife gave birth to twin boys who were all golden.

Who acts: two, horse, two golden lilies, wife, boys · What happens: come, pass, plant, grow up, have, give · To what, where: that, two pieces, garden, two golden foals, birth, boys

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, horse, two golden lilies, wife), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pass	mark
8	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 pass	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 pieces	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pieces	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pieces	nummod
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pass	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 planted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 planted	aux
16	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 pieces	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garden	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 planted	obl
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 lilies	nummod
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lilies	amod
22	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 planted	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 grew	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horse	nmod:poss
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 foals	nummod
32	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 foals	amod
33	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gave	punct
35	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	38 gave	mark
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gave	nsubj
38	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 had	parataxis
39	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gave	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 twin	mark
41	twin	twin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 gave	advcl
42	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 twin	obj
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 golden	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 golden	cop
45	all	all	ADV	_	46 golden	advmod
46	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 boys	acl:relcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	two			time		tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	two not said here	that	the two pieces			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent that=Theme from piece=Initial_Location
3	plant	past · perfect	horse	the two pieces not said here	the garden			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in garden=Destination
4	grow up	past	two golden lilies					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	horse's horse	two golden foals				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient
6	give	past	horse's wife	birth				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme
7	twin	to-infinitive	horse's wife not said here	boys				tree rules
8	is	past	boys				all, golden 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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