The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 103
And the next instant a humming bird, dressed in green and blue, flashed past the woman and entered the house.
What happens: dress, flash, enter · To what, where: humming bird, green, house
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bird | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 instant | amod |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 6 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | compound |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dressed | punct |
| 9 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bird | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 green | case |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dressed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 blue | cc |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dressed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flashed | punct |
| 15 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bird | parataxis |
| 16 | past | past | ADP | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flashed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 entered | cc |
| 20 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flashed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | a humming bird not said here | green | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flash | participle | past the woman | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | the house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
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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