The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 55
But the time till morning seemed very long, and with the first ray of sun they both rose, and pushed aside the branches of the birch trees.
Who acts: time, words · What happens: seem, rise, push, ray · To what, where: branches, sun
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, words), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 seemed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rose | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 ray | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ray | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 ray | amod |
| 14 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sun | case |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ray | nmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rose | nsubj |
| 18 | both | both | ADV | _ | 19 rose | advmod |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seemed | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pushed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pushed | cc |
| 22 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rose | conj |
| 23 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 22 pushed | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 branches | det |
| 25 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pushed | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trees | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trees | det |
| 28 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trees | compound |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 branches | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the time till morning | long property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | words = word | with the first ray of sun; both property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | push | participle | words = word not said here | the branches of the birch trees | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 4 | ray | sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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