The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 96

'The black to the east, the white to the west!' they sang, all at once; and the girl dried her tears and felt brave again.

Who acts: sparrows, girl · What happens: sing, dry, feel · To what, where: tears

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 (sparrows, girl), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 black	det
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sang	ccomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 east	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 east	det
6	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 black	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 white	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 white	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 black	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 west	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 west	det
12	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 white	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sang	nsubj
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 once	punct
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 once	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 sang	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dried	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dried	nsubj
25	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sang	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tears	nmod:poss
27	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dried	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 felt	cc
29	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dried	conj
30	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 felt	xcomp
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 brave	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	sparrows = sparrow		once property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dry	past	the girl	woman's tears		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result
3	feel	past	the girl not said here		brave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

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