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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trees | det |
| 2 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trees | compound |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hung | aux:pass |
| 5 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 apples | case |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 apples | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rosy | cc |
| 9 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 golden | conj |
| 10 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sang | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sang | cc |
| 13 | nightingales | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sang | nsubj |
| 14 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hung | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bush | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 bush | det |
| 17 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sang | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wandered | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 wandered | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gnome | det |
| 21 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wandered | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 princess | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gnome | conj |
| 25 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hung | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 alleys | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 alleys | det |
| 28 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 alleys | amod |
| 29 | alleys | alley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wandered | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gazing | punct |
| 31 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 gazing | advmod |
| 32 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 wandered | advcl |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 moon | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 moon | det |
| 35 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gazing | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pausing | punct |
| 37 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 pausing | advmod |
| 38 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 gazing | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 gather | mark |
| 40 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 pausing | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 flowers | det |
| 42 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 flowers | amod |
| 43 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gather | obj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 adornment | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 adornment | nmod:poss |
| 46 | adornment | adornment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gather | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past · passive | the fruit trees | with golden apples | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with apple=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | nightingales | every bush | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bush=Location | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | the gnome and the princess | the leafy alleys | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alley=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | gaze | gerund | the gnome and the princess not said here | at the moon; sometimes property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pause | gerund | the gnome and the princess not said here | sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | gather | to-infinitive | the gnome and the princess not said here | the rarest flowers | for princess's adornment | vn 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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