The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 89
As there was a soft breeze blowing, the bushes to which the head was tied moved gently, and the bells rang.
Who acts: soft breeze, bells · What happens: blow, tie, move, be · To what, where: bushes, head
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft breeze, bells), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rang | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 breeze | det |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 breeze | amod |
| 6 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 breeze | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bushes | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bushes | det |
| 10 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blowing | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 tied | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tied | aux:pass |
| 16 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 17 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tied | conj |
| 18 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 17 moved | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rang | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rang | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bells | det |
| 22 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rang | nsubj |
| 23 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | gerund | a soft breeze not said here | the bushes | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tie | past · passive | the head | to the bushes | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | move | participle | gently property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the bells | ring 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: «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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