The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 22

For company she had all the birds in the forest, who came and talked to her, and for playthings the strange flowers which they brought her from far, and the butterflies which danced with her.

Who acts: Wildrose, forest, flowers, butterflies · What happens: have, come, talk, bring, dance · To what, where: birds, forest, Wildrose, strange flowers

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wildrose, forest, flowers, butterflies), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 company	case
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 birds	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 forest	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 talked	cc
15	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 talked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 playthings	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 playthings	cc
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 playthings	case
21	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flowers	det
23	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 flowers	amod
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 playthings	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 brought	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 brought	nsubj
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flowers	acl:relcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 brought	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 far	case
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 brought	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 danced	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 danced	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 butterflies	det
34	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 danced	nsubj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 danced	nsubj
36	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 danced	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Wildrose	all birds		the forest	for company	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	come	past	the forest					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	past	the forest not said here		Wildrose			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
4	bring	past	flowers = flower	the strange flowers				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme she=Destination
5	dance	past	the butterflies				with Wildrose	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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