The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 23
Trees waved in the soft breeze, and flowers of the brightest colours danced in the grass.
Who acts: Trees, flowers · What happens: wave, dance · To what, where: grass
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Trees, flowers), 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 | Trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 waved | nsubj |
| 2 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 breeze | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 breeze | det |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 breeze | amod |
| 6 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 danced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 danced | cc |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 danced | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 colours | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 colours | det |
| 12 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 colours | amod |
| 13 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flowers | nmod |
| 14 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waved | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 grass | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grass | det |
| 17 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 danced | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | Trees | in the soft breeze | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in breeze=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | flowers of the brightest colours | the grass | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/23/