More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 52

But he had not long been sitting there alone, when he heard a fluttering sound near him in the chimney and presently down by his side dropped the tiniest wee girl you could think of; she was not a span high, and had hair like spun silver, eyes as green as grass, and cheeks red as June roses.

Who acts: boy, you, girl · What happens: have, not sit, hear, flutter, drop, think · To what, where: fluttering sound, chimney, tiniest wee girl, hair

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, you, girl), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sitting	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 sitting	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	xcomp
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sitting	advmod
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 sitting	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 heard	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sound	det
15	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 sound	amod
16	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obj
17	near	near	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 chimney	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chimney	det
21	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dropped	cc
23	presently	presently	ADV	_	24 down	advmod
24	down	down	ADV	_	28 dropped	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 side	nmod:poss
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dropped	obl
28	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 girl	det
30	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 girl	amod
31	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 girl	amod
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dropped	obj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 think	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 think	aux
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 girl	acl:relcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 think	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 high	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 high	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 high	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 high	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 span	det
42	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 high	obl:unmarked
43	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 had	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 had	cc
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
47	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 had	obj
48	like	like	ADP	_	50 silver	case
49	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 silver	amod
50	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hair	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 eyes	punct
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 hair	conj
53	as	as	ADV	_	54 green	advmod
54	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 eyes	amod
55	as	as	ADP	_	56 grass	case
56	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 green	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 cheeks	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 cheeks	cc
59	cheeks	cheek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
60	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 cheeks	xcomp
61	as	as	ADP	_	63 roses	case
62	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 roses	compound
63	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 cheeks	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy				tree rules
2	not sit	participle · progressive	boy not said here		there	alone, long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	boy	a fluttering sound	the chimney	near fire	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
4	flutter	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	drop	past	boy not said here	the tiniest wee girl		by boy's side; down property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme by side=Destination
6	think speech: other	could	you	the tiniest wee girl not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme
7	not is	past	girl			a span obl:unmarked; high property	tree rules
8	have	past	boy not said here	hair and eyes		like spun silver	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
9	spin	participle					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
10	cheek	present	boy not said here			as June roses; red 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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