The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 24

Just then she thought of the eggs, and broke one, out of which came a little carriage of polished steel ornamented with gold, drawn by six green mice.

Who acts: Turritella · What happens: think, break, come, polish, ornament, draw · To what, where: one, polished steel, little carriage

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Turritella), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 eggs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eggs	det
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 broke	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 broke	cc
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 broke	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 which	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broke	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 carriage	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 carriage	amod
19	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 steel	case
21	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 steel	amod
22	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carriage	nmod
23	ornamented	ornament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 steel	acl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 gold	case
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ornamented	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drawn	punct
27	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 carriage	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 mice	case
29	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 mice	nummod
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mice	amod
31	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 drawn	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Turritella		then	of the eggs	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	past		one			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
3	come	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	ornament	participle		polished steel not said here		with gold	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme
6	draw	participle		a little carriage of polished steel not said here		by six green mice	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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