The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 43
And when the girl stepped into her cottage a wreath of rosebuds was on her head, and a crowd of little birds were singing unseen.
Who acts: girl, wreath, crowd · What happens: step, be, sing · To what, where: cottage, head
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 (girl, wreath, crowd), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stepped | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cottage | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wreath | det |
| 10 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rosebuds | case |
| 12 | rosebuds | rosebud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wreath | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 head | cop |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cottage | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 singing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 singing | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crowd | det |
| 20 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 singing | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 birds | case |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 birds | amod |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crowd | nmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 singing | aux |
| 25 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stepped | advcl |
| 26 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 singing | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the girl | stepmother's cottage | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cottage=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a wreath of rosebuds | stepmother's cottage not said here | stepmother's head | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | a crowd of little birds | unseen property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 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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