The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 91

There were nightingales, canaries, goldfinches, linnets, tomtits, parrots, owls, sparrows, doves, ostriches, bustards, peacocks, larks, partridges, and everything else that you can think of.

Who acts: nightingales, you · What happens: be, think

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (nightingales, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 canaries	punct
5	canaries	canary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goldfinches	punct
7	goldfinches	goldfinch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 linnets	punct
9	linnets	linnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tomtits	punct
11	tomtits	tomtit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 parrots	punct
13	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 owls	punct
15	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sparrows	punct
17	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 doves	punct
19	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ostriches	punct
21	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bustards	punct
23	bustards	bustard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 peacocks	punct
25	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 larks	punct
27	larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 partridges	punct
29	partridges	partridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nightingales	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 everything	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 everything	cc
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 were	parataxis
33	else	else	ADV	_	32 everything	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 think	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 think	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 think	aux
37	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 everything	acl
38	of	of	ADP	_	37 think	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	nightingales and canaries and goldfinches and linnets and tomtits and parrots and owls and sparrows and doves and ostriches and bustards and peacocks and larks and partridges			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	can	you						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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