The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 258

And the very birds of the air came and bewailed Snowdrop’s death, first an owl, and then a raven, and last of all a little dove.

Who acts: birds, Snowdrop · What happens: come, bewail, die · To what, where: raven, death

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, Snowdrop), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 birds	advmod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birds	nmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bewailed	cc
10	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
11	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 death	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Snowdrop	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bewailed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 owl	punct
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 owl	advmod
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 owl	det
17	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 death	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 raven	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 raven	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 raven	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 raven	det
22	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 last	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 last	cc
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 raven	amod
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 dove	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 dove	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dove	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dove	amod
30	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 last	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	the birds of the air	a raven	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bewail	past	the birds of the air not said here	Snowdrop's death and a owl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus
3	die		Snowdrop		nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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