The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 45
Next a flight of birds will come and alight on the tree, and never didst thou hear a strain so sweet as that which they will sing.
Who acts: flight, strain · What happens: come, not do, hear, sing · To what, where: tree, thou, strain
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flight, strain), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flight | det |
| 3 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flight | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 alight | cc |
| 9 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 didst | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 didst | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 didst | advmod |
| 16 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | advcl |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 didst | obj |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 didst | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 strain | det |
| 20 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hear | obj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 sweet | advmod |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strain | amod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 that | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 sweet | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 sing | nsubj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sing | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 sing | aux |
| 28 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 strain | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | a flight of birds | the tree | next property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | |||
| 2 | not do | past | a flight of birds not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | infinitive | a flight of birds not said here | a strain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer strain=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | future | a strain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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