The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 99

The dark woods were hewn down, and in their place appeared blossoming orchards surrounding cosy-looking thatched cottages; from every chimney the blue smoke curled peacefully into the air, sheep and oxen fed in the flowery meadows, while from the shade of the hedges came the music of the shepherd’s pipe.

Who acts: place, orchards, blue smoke · What happens: hewn down, appear, blossom, surround, look, thatch · To what, where: dark woods, chimney, orchards, looking thatched cottages, blue smoke, air

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 (place, orchards, blue smoke), 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	3 woods	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woods	amod
3	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hewn	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hewn	aux:pass
5	hewn	hewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 hewn	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 appeared	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 appeared	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 place	nmod:poss
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hewn	conj
13	blossoming	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 appeared	xcomp
14	orchards	orchard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 blossoming	obj
15	surrounding	surround	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 orchards	acl
16	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looking	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 cosy	punct
18	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 cottages	amod
19	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cottages	amod
20	cottages	cottage	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 surrounding	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 chimney	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 chimney	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 chimney	det
24	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hewn	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 smoke	det
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 smoke	amod
27	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chimney	appos
28	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 smoke	acl
29	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	28 curled	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 curled	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sheep	punct
34	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 smoke	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 oxen	cc
36	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sheep	conj
37	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 sheep	acl
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 meadows	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 meadows	det
40	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 meadows	amod
41	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 came	punct
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	50 came	mark
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 shade	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 shade	det
46	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 came	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 hedges	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 hedges	det
49	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 shade	nmod
50	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 smoke	acl:relcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 music	det
52	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 came	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	57 pipe	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 shepherd	det
55	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pipe	nmod:poss
56	’s	's	PART	_	55 shepherd	case
57	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 music	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hewn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hewn down	past · passive		the dark woods	every chimney		tree rules
2	appear	past	woods's place				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	blossom	gerund	woods's place not said here	orchards			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location orchard=Theme
4	surround	gerund	orchards not said here	looking thatched cottages			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Co-Theme
5	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	thatch	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
7	curl	participle		the blue smoke and sheep and oxen not said here	the air	peacefully property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination
8	feed	participle		sheep and oxen not said here	the flowery meadows		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location
9	come	past	the blue smoke and sheep and oxen not said here	the music of the shepherd's pipe	the shade of the hedges		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=Theme
10	shade			the hedges			nom shade «state 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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