The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 61

And with these words the three dogs became three birds and flew away into the heavens.

Who acts: three dogs · What happens: become, fly away · To what, where: three birds, heavens

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three dogs), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 became	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 became	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dogs	nummod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 birds	nummod
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 became	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flew	cc
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 heavens	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heavens	det
16	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flew	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the three dogs	three birds				with this words	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fly away	past	the three dogs not said here					into the heavens result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into heaven=Result

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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