The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 109
And the Blue Bird and the Butterfly sing and flutter among the lilies and roses of the Palace garden to this very day.
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 Bird | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bird | det |
| 3 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bird | amod |
| 4 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sing | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sing | det |
| 7 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sing | compound |
| 8 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Bird | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flutter | cc |
| 10 | flutter | flutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sing | conj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 lilies | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lilies | det |
| 13 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sing | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 roses | cc |
| 15 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lilies | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 18 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 garden | compound |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roses | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 day | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 day | advmod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lilies | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bird | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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