The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 46
As she did so the roses became withered and brown, and the birds flew out of the window.
Who acts: stepmother, birds · What happens: do, wither, fly out · To what, where: roses, window
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 (stepmother, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 did | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flew | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 withered | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roses | det |
| 6 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 withered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 withered | aux:pass |
| 8 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brown | cc |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 withered | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | stepmother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wither | past · passive | the roses | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly out | past | the birds | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/46/