The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 54

Every day, when his work was done, he used to go up to the house, half hidden among flowering plants and brilliant creepers, where humming-birds darted from bush to bush, and parrots of all colours, red and green and grey, shrieked in chorus.

Who acts: Alonzo · What happens: do, use, go up, hide, flower, hum · To what, where: work, half, flowering plants, birds, bush, chorus

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 done	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 work	nmod:poss
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 day	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 go	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 half	punct
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 house	conj
20	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 half	acl
21	among	among	ADP	_	23 plants	case
22	flowering	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 plants	amod
23	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hidden	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 creepers	cc
25	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 creepers	amod
26	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 plants	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 where	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 plants	nmod
29	humming	hum	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 where	advcl:relcl
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 birds	punct
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 humming	obj
32	darted	dart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 birds	acl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 bush	case
34	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 darted	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 bush	case
36	bush	bush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 darted	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 parrots	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 parrots	cc
39	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 birds	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 colours	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 colours	det
42	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 parrots	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 red	punct
44	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 colours	appos
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 green	cc
46	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 red	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 grey	cc
48	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 red	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 shrieked	punct
50	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 red	conj
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 chorus	case
52	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 shrieked	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		Alonzo's work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	use	past	Alonzo			day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go up	to-infinitive	Alonzo not said here				to the house and half	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	hide	participle		half not said here	flowering plants and brilliant creepers			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among plant=Location
5	flower	gerund						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hum	gerund		birds and parrots of all colours				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
7	dart	participle		birds and parrots of all colours not said here	bush			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bush=Trajectory
8	bush	infinitive						tree rules
9	shriek	participle			chorus			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chorus=Location
10	work		Alonzo					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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