The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 43

Then he went down into the garden, and though it was winter everywhere else, here the sun shone, and the birds sang, and the flowers bloomed, and the air was soft and sweet.

Who acts: sign, garden, sun, birds, air · What happens: go down, be, shine, sing, bloom · To what, where: garden, winter, flowers

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign, garden, sun, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shone	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shone	cc
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 winter	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 winter	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 winter	cop
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shone	advcl
14	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 winter	advmod
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 everywhere	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 winter	punct
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 shone	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shone	nsubj
20	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sang	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sang	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birds	det
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sang	nsubj
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bloomed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bloomed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flowers	det
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bloomed	nsubj:pass
30	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 soft	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 soft	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 air	det
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 soft	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 soft	cop
36	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bloomed	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sweet	cc
38	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 soft	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	sign		the garden	then	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	garden	winter			everywhere property	tree rules
3	shine	past	the sun		here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	the birds					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	bloom	participle · passive		the flowers				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	is	past	the air				soft property	tree rules
7	be		the air not said here					tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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