The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 31
It was a beautiful evening, and the birds were singing in all the branches.
Who acts: wood, birds · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: beautiful evening, branches
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 evening | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 evening | amod |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 singing | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 birds | det |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 singing | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 singing | aux |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 evening | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 branches | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 branches | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 branches | det |
| 15 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 singing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wood | a beautiful evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | the birds | a beautiful evening not said here | all branches | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location evening=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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