The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 106

On and on went he till the little birds flew to their nests, and the brightness died out of the sky, and a darkness fell over the earth.

Who acts: blessing, little birds, brightness, darkness · What happens: go, fly, die out, fall · To what, where: nests, sky, earth

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, little birds, brightness, darkness), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 on	cc
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 On	conj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 flew	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 nests	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nests	nmod:poss
13	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 died	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brightness	det
17	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flew	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 sky	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 darkness	det
26	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 earth	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	blessing			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past	the little birds		birds's nests	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination
3	die out	past	the brightness	the sky		tree rules
4	fall	past	a darkness		the earth	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over earth=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.

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