The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 49

The spring sun had chased away the last snow from its hiding place under the hedges; the fields were full of flowers; nightingales sang in the trees, and all the world was gay.

Who acts: fields, nightingales, world · What happens: chase away, be, sing · To what, where: spring sun, hiding place, trees

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fields, nightingales, world), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chased	aux
5	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 chased	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snow	amod
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 place	nmod:poss
12	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	compound
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obl
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 hedges	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hedges	det
16	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 place	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 full	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fields	det
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 full	cop
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chased	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 flowers	case
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sang	punct
25	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sang	nsubj
26	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chased	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 trees	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trees	det
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sang	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gay	cc
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 world	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gay	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 gay	cop
36	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sang	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chase away	past · perfect · passive		the spring sun	sun's hiding place under the hedges	away property	tree rules
2	is	past	the fields			of flowers; full property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	past	nightingales		the trees		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
4	is	past	all world			gay property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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