The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 70

And the Blue Bird's song was very loud and sweet.

Who acts: song, Blue Bird · What happens: be, sing

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: who acts (song, Blue Bird), 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	_	9 loud	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	6 song	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Bird	case
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loud	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 loud	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 loud	advmod
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sweet	cc
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loud	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 loud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Blue Bird's song	loud property	tree rules
2	be		the Blue Bird's song not said here		tree rules
3	sing		the Blue Bird		nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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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