The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 8

Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.

Who acts: Banks, birds · What happens: be, sing, flutter · To what, where: hand, trees

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Banks, birds), 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	Banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hand	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
3	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Banks	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hand	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sang	cc
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sang	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 plumage	case
13	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plumage	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brilliant	cc
15	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rare	conj
16	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 birds	nmod
17	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hand	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fluttered	cc
19	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sang	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fluttered	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bushes	cc
24	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 trees	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	is	past	Banks of gorgeous flowers	every hand	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	birds with rare plumage		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	flutter	past	birds with rare plumage not said here	the trees and bushes	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (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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