The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 69

So he rose and looked out, and underneath him flowers from every part of the world were blooming, and creepers of every colour hung in chains from tree to tree.

Who acts: sun · What happens: rise, look out, bloom, hang · To what, where: creepers, colour, chains

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 rose	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 looked	cc
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 looked	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blooming	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blooming	cc
9	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	11 flowers	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flowers	nsubj
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blooming	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 part	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 part	det
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flowers	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 blooming	aux
19	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rose	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 creepers	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 creepers	cc
22	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blooming	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 colour	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 colour	det
25	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 creepers	nmod
26	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 colour	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 chains	case
28	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hung	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 tree	case
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hung	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 tree	case
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hung	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	sun				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look out	past	sun not said here				vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	bloom	past · progressive	sun not said here	creepers of every colour		underneath flowers from every part of the world	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location creeper=Theme
4	hang	participle		every colour not said here	chains	from tree; to tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chain=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 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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