The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 20

She did not touch the soup, but she carried the bones to the edge of the field and buried them there; and there sprang up on the spot a birch tree—a very lovely birch tree.

Who acts: girl · What happens: not touch, carry, bury, spring up · To what, where: soup, bones, edge, birch tree, spot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soup	det
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 carried	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carried	nsubj
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bones	det
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carried	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 edge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 edge	det
15	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 field	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 field	det
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 edge	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 buried	cc
20	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 buried	obj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 buried	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sprang	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sprang	cc
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sprang	advmod
26	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 sprang	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 spot	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spot	det
30	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprang	obl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
32	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tree	compound
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprang	obj
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	39 tree	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 tree	det
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 lovely	advmod
37	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tree	amod
38	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tree	compound
39	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touch	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not touch	past · do-support	girl	the soup		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soup=Co-Theme
2	carry	past	girl	the bones	the edge of the field	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme to edge=Destination
3	bury	past	girl not said here	bones = bone	there	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	spring up	past	girl not said here	a birch tree	the spot; there	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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