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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 95

Coming back, the Simurgh saw that a little sunshine fell upon the prince through the leaves, and it spread its wings and shaded him till he woke.

Who acts: Simurgh, little sunshine, sunshine · What happens: come back, see, fall, spread, shade, wake · To what, where: leaves, wings, sunshine

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simurgh, little sunshine, sunshine), 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

advcladvmodpunctdetnsubjmarkdetamodnsubjadvclcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctccnsubjconjnmod:possobjccconjobjmarknsubjadvclpunctrootComingVERBbackADV,PUNCTtheDETSimurghPROPNsawVERBthatSCONJaDETlittleADJsunshineNOUNfellVERBuponADPtheDETprinceNOUNthroughADPtheDETleavesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONspreadVERBitsPRONwingsNOUNandCCONJshadedVERBhimPRONtillSCONJhePRONwokeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ComingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 sawadvcl
2backbackADV_1 Comingadvmod
3,,PUNCT_1 Comingpunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Simurghdet
5SimurghSimurghPROPNNumber=Sing6 sawnsubj
6sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thatthatSCONJ_11 fellmark
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 sunshinedet
9littlelittleADJDegree=Pos10 sunshineamod
10sunshinesunshineNOUNNumber=Sing11 fellnsubj
11fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 sawadvcl
12uponuponADP_14 princecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 princedet
14princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing11 fellobl
15throughthroughADP_17 leavescase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 leavesdet
17leavesleafNOUNNumber=Plur11 fellobl
18,,PUNCT_21 spreadpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 spreadcc
20ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 spreadnsubj
21spreadspreadVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 sawconj
22itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 wingsnmod:poss
23wingswingNOUNNumber=Plur21 spreadobj
24andandCCONJ_25 shadedcc
25shadedshadeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 spreadconj
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 shadedobj
27tilltillSCONJ_29 wokemark
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 wokensubj
29wokewakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 shadedadvcl
30..PUNCT_6 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1come backgerundthe Simurgh not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2seepastthe Simurghvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3fallpasta little sunshinethe leavesupon the princevn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon prince=Location
4spreadpastSimurghSimurgh's wingsvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
5shadepastSimurgh not said heresunshinevn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
6wakepastsunshinevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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