The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 41

'And let the tiniest singing birds in the world sit amongst the flowers,' rejoined the third.

Who acts: you, tiniest singing birds · What happens: let, sing, sit, rejoin · To what, where: flowers, third

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tiniest singing birds), 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 let	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
5	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 birds	amod
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sit	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 birds	nmod
11	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
12	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	14 flowers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 flowers	det
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sit	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rejoined	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 rejoined	punct
17	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sit	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 third	det
19	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 rejoined	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	present	the tiniest singing birds in the world		the flowers	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst flower=Location
4	rejoin	past	the tiniest singing birds in the world not said here	the third		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient

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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