The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 100

Then there was an aviary full of rare birds, which were so tame that they flew to Beauty as soon as they saw her, and perched upon her shoulders and her head.

Who acts: rare birds, birds · What happens: be, fly, see · To what, where: Beauty, charming

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rare birds, 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 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 perched	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 aviary	det
5	aviary	aviary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 aviary	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 birds	case
8	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tame	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tame	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tame	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 tame	advmod
14	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 flew	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tame	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Beauty	case
19	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 flew	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 saw	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 soon	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 perched	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 perched	cc
28	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 shoulders	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 shoulders	nmod:poss
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 perched	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 head	cc
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shoulders	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 perched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	rare birds			tame property	tree rules
2	fly	past	birds = bird		Beauty	soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beauty=Result
3	see	past	birds = bird	charming			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	is	past				upon charming's shoulders and charming's head; perch property	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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