The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 3

When they awoke the sun was high in the heavens, the wood was beautiful in the summer morning, and the birds were flying about in the branches and the tree tops.

Who acts: girls, sun, wood, birds · What happens: awake, be, fly · To what, where: heavens, branches

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, sun, wood, birds), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 high	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 high	cop
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 awoke	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 heavens	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heavens	det
10	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 high	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beautiful	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beautiful	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beautiful	cop
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 awoke	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 morning	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
18	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 morning	compound
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beautiful	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flying	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flying	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 birds	det
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 flying	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 flying	aux
25	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 awoke	advcl
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 flying	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 branches	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 branches	det
29	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 flying	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tops	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tops	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tops	compound
33	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 branches	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	girls = girl				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the sun	the heavens		high property	tree rules
3	is	past	the wood		morning	beautiful property	tree rules
4	fly	past · progressive	the birds	the branches and the tree tops		about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in branch=Location

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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