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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 33

The fruit trees were hung with golden and rosy apples, and nightingales sang in every bush, as the gnome and the princess wandered in the leafy alleys, sometimes gazing at the moon, sometimes pausing to gather the rarest flowers for her adornment.

Who acts: nightingales, gnome · What happens: hang, sing, wander, gaze, pause, gather · To what, where: fruit trees, bush, leafy alleys, rarest flowers

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingales, gnome), 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

detcompoundnsubj:passaux:passcaseamodccconjoblpunctccnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctmarkdetnsubjccdetconjconjcasedetamodoblpunctadvmodadvclcasedetoblpunctadvmodconjmarkxcompdetamodobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheDETfruitNOUNtreesNOUNwereAUXhungVERBwithADPgoldenADJandCCONJrosyADJapplesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJnightingalesNOUNsangVERBinADPeveryDETbushNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJtheDETgnomeNOUNandCCONJtheDETprincessNOUNwanderedVERBinADPtheDETleafyADJalleysNOUN,PUNCTsometimesADVgazingVERBatADPtheDETmoonNOUN,PUNCTsometimesADVpausingVERBtoPARTgatherVERBtheDETrarestADJflowersNOUNforADPherPRONadornmentNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 treesdet
2fruitfruitNOUNNumber=Sing3 treescompound
3treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur5 hungnsubj:pass
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 hungaux:pass
5hunghangVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6withwithADP_10 applescase
7goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos10 applesamod
8andandCCONJ_9 rosycc
9rosyrosyADJDegree=Pos7 goldenconj
10applesappleNOUNNumber=Plur5 hungobl
11,,PUNCT_14 sangpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 sangcc
13nightingalesnightingaleNOUNNumber=Plur14 sangnsubj
14sangsingVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 hungconj
15ininADP_17 bushcase
16everyeveryDETPronType=Tot17 bushdet
17bushbushNOUNNumber=Sing14 sangobl
18,,PUNCT_25 wanderedpunct
19asasSCONJ_25 wanderedmark
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 gnomedet
21gnomegnomeNOUNNumber=Sing25 wanderednsubj
22andandCCONJ_24 princesscc
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 princessdet
24princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing21 gnomeconj
25wanderedwanderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 hungconj
26ininADP_29 alleyscase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 alleysdet
28leafyleafyADJDegree=Pos29 alleysamod
29alleysalleyNOUNNumber=Plur25 wanderedobl
30,,PUNCT_32 gazingpunct
31sometimessometimesADVPronType=Ind32 gazingadvmod
32gazinggazeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part25 wanderedadvcl
33atatADP_35 mooncase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 moondet
35moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing32 gazingobl
36,,PUNCT_38 pausingpunct
37sometimessometimesADVPronType=Ind38 pausingadvmod
38pausingpauseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part32 gazingconj
39totoPART_40 gathermark
40gathergatherVERBVerbForm=Inf38 pausingxcomp
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 flowersdet
42rarestrareADJDegree=Sup43 flowersamod
43flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur40 gatherobj
44forforADP_46 adornmentcase
45herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs46 adornmentnmod:poss
46adornmentadornmentNOUNNumber=Sing40 gatherobl
47..PUNCT_5 hungpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hangpast · passivethe fruit treeswith golden applesvn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with apple=Instrument
2sing speech: expresspastnightingalesevery bushvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bush=Location
3wanderpastthe gnome and the princessthe leafy alleysvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alley=Trajectory
4gazegerundthe gnome and the princess not said hereat the moon; sometimes propertyvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme
5pausegerundthe gnome and the princess not said heresometimes propertytree rules
6gatherto-infinitivethe gnome and the princess not said herethe rarest flowersfor princess's adornmentvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for adornment=Beneficiary

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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