The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 95

Sometimes the fancy would take him to leave those gloomy regions, and come out upon the green earth for a while, and bask in the sunshine and hear the birds sing.

Who acts: fancy, birds · What happens: take, leave, come out, bask, hear, sing · To what, where: thing, gloomy regions, sunshine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fancy, birds), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 take	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fancy	det
3	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	advcl
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 regions	det
10	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 regions	amod
11	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 earth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 earth	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 earth	amod
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 while	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 while	det
22	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bask	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bask	cc
25	bask	bask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 sunshine	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sunshine	det
28	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bask	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hear	cc
30	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 bask	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 birds	det
32	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sing	nsubj
33	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hear	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	the fancy		thing			sometimes property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	leave	to-infinitive	the fancy not said here	that gloomy regions					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme
3	come out	infinitive	the fancy not said here				while	upon the green earth; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	bask	infinitive	the fancy not said here			the sunshine			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hear	present	the fancy not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	sing speech: express	present	the birds						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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