The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 5

They often roamed about in the woods gathering berries and no beast offered to hurt them; on the contrary, they came up to them in the most confiding manner; the little hare would eat a cabbage leaf from their hands, the deer grazed beside them, the stag would bound past them merrily, and the birds remained on the branches and sang to them with all their might.

Who acts: roses, woods, little hare, deer, stag · What happens: roam, gather, offer, hurt, come up, confide · To what, where: berries, beast, roses, contrary, cabbage leaf, hands

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, woods, little hare, deer), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 roamed	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 roamed	advmod
3	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 woods	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roamed	obl
8	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 woods	acl
9	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathering	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beast	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 beast	det
12	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 berries	conj
13	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 beast	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hurt	mark
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 offered	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurt	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 contrary	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 contrary	det
20	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 contrary	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roamed	conj
24	up	up	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 manner	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 manner	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 confiding	advmod
30	confiding	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 manner	amod
31	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 eat	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hare	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hare	amod
35	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eat	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 eat	aux
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 roamed	parataxis
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 leaf	det
39	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 leaf	compound
40	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eat	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 hands	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hands	nmod:poss
43	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 eat	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 grazed	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 deer	det
46	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 grazed	nsubj
47	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roamed	parataxis
48	beside	beside	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 grazed	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 bound	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 stag	det
52	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bound	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 bound	aux
54	bound	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 grazed	conj
55	past	past	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 bound	obl
57	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	54 bound	advmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 birds	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 birds	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 birds	det
61	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roamed	parataxis
62	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 birds	acl
63	on	on	ADP	_	65 branches	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 branches	det
65	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 remained	obl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 sang	cc
67	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 remained	conj
68	to	to	ADP	_	69 them	case
69	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 sang	obl
70	with	with	SCONJ	_	73 might	mark
71	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	73 might	det:predet
72	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 might	nmod:poss
73	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 sang	advcl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	roam	past	roses = rose				about the woods; often property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about wood=Trajectory
2	gather	gerund	the woods not said here	berries and no beast				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
3	offer	participle		no beast not said here				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	hurt	to-infinitive		roses = rose				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
5	come up	past	roses = rose		berries = berry	the contrary	in the confiding manner	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
6	confide speech: other	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	eat	would	the little hare	a cabbage leaf		roses's hands		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
8	graze	past	the deer				beside roses = rose	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	bound	would	the stag				past roses = rose; merrily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory
10	remain	participle		the birds not said here		the branches		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location
11	sing speech: express	past			roses = rose			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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