The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 43

By and by the coming of dawn loosened the tongues of all the birds, and, had the Prince only known what they were saying, or the maiden been listening, they might have been spared much sorrow, but they were thinking only of each other, and when they came out of the forest the sun was high in the heavens.

Who acts: tongues, sun · What happens: come, loosen, have, know, say, listen · To what, where: tongues, Prince, forest, heavens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongues, sun), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	5 coming	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 coming	cc
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 coming	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coming	det
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 loosened	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obl
8	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tongues	det
10	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loosened	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 birds	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 birds	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tongues	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 loosened	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Prince	det
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 known	advmod
22	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 had	advcl
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 saying	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saying	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saying	aux
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 known	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 listening	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 listening	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 listening	det
30	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 listening	amod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 listening	aux
32	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 saying	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spared	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 spared	nsubj:pass
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 spared	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 spared	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 spared	aux:pass
38	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 listening	advcl
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sorrow	amod
40	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spared	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 thinking	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 thinking	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 thinking	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 thinking	aux
45	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 saying	conj
46	only	only	ADV	_	48 each	advmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 each	case
48	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	45 thinking	obl
49	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 each	fixed
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 came	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 came	cc
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 came	advmod
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 came	nsubj
54	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 loosened	conj
55	out	out	ADP	_	58 forest	case
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 forest	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 forest	det
58	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 came	obl
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 sun	det
60	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 high	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 high	cop
62	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 forest	acl:relcl
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 heavens	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 heavens	det
65	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 high	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 loosened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund				dawn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	loosen	past		the tongues of all birds				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
3	have	past		the Prince				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient
4	know	participle						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past · progressive	tongues = tongue					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	listen	participle · progressive	tongues = tongue not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	spare	might · perfect · passive		tongues = tongue				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient sorrow=Asset
8	think speech: other	past · progressive	tongues = tongue				of each	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	come out	past	tongues = tongue	the forest				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient forest=Result
10	is	past	the sun	the forest not said here	the heavens		high 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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