The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 98

The earth became softer, the sun hotter, the birds sang, and the flowers once more appeared in the grass.

Who acts: earth, birds, flowers · What happens: become, sing, appear · To what, where: grass

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, birds, flowers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hotter	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hotter	nsubj
8	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 softer	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sang	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sang	nsubj
12	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hotter	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 appeared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 appeared	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flowers	det
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 appeared	nsubj
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 appeared	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 appeared	advmod
19	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 grass	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grass	det
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appeared	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the earth		soft property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past	the birds			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	appear	past	the flowers	the grass	once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/98/