The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 3

On a misty morning every bush is hung with dewy round webs, a jay flaps off with an acorn in its beak to bury, swallows line up on the wires before their long trip to Africa, and a big hairy spider strolls across the living room carpet, making someone scream.

Who acts: jay, swallows, big hairy spider, someone · What happens: hung, flap off, bury, line up, stroll, make · To what, where: bush, wires, room carpet, someone

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jay, swallows, big hairy spider, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	misty	misty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bush	det
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hung	aux:pass
8	hung	hung	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 webs	case
10	dewy	dewy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 webs	amod
11	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 webs	amod
12	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hung	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flaps	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 jay	det
15	jay	jay	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flaps	nsubj
16	flaps	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hung	advcl
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 flaps	compound:prt
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 acorn	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 acorn	det
20	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flaps	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 beak	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 beak	nmod:poss
23	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 acorn	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bury	mark
25	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 beak	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swallows	punct
27	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 line	nsubj
28	line	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hung	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 line	compound:prt
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 wires	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wires	det
32	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 line	obl
33	before	before	ADP	_	36 trip	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 trip	nmod:poss
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 trip	amod
36	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 line	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Africa	case
38	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 trip	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 strolls	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 strolls	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 spider	det
42	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 spider	amod
43	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 spider	amod
44	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 strolls	nsubj
45	strolls	stroll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hung	conj
46	across	across	ADP	_	50 carpet	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 carpet	det
48	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 room	compound
49	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 carpet	compound
50	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 strolls	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 making	punct
52	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 strolls	advcl
53	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	52 making	obj
54	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 making	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hung	present · passive		every bush		morning	with dewy round webs	tree rules
2	flap off	present	a jay				with a acorn in jay's beak	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bury	to-infinitive	a jay not said here					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	line up	present	swallows		the wires	before swallows's long trip to Africa		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	stroll	present	a big hairy spider		the room carpet			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across carpet=Trajectory
6	make	gerund	a big hairy spider not said here	someone				tree rules
7	scream speech: express	infinitive	someone not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	trip		swallows = swallow				to Africa	nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:3.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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