The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 31

The song floated through the trees, now far and now near; no one could tell whence it came, the whole air seemed full of it.

Who acts: one, tree, whole air · What happens: float, tell, come, seem · To what, where: song, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, tree, whole air), 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 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	ccomp
3	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 song	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 floated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 far	punct
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 floated	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 near	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 near	advmod
12	near	near	ADV	_	9 far	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 seemed	advcl
18	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seemed	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 air	amod
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seemed	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 full	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	float	participle		the song not said here	the trees	far property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory
2	tell speech: assert	could	no one				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	tree			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	the whole air			full property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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 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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