The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 74

Thus, in dancing and singing, and talking over the days when the maiden was a sparrow hopping in and out of her cage, the night passed away, and when the first rays of sun broke through the hedge of bamboo, the old man started up, thanked his hostess for her friendly welcome, and prepared to say farewell.

Who acts: night, maiden, sparrow, first rays, old man, life · What happens: sing, talk, be, hop in, pass away, break · To what, where: sparrow, dancing, hedge, hostess, sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, maiden, sparrow, first rays), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	29 passed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 dancing	case
4	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 singing	cc
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dancing	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sparrow	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sparrow	cc
9	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sparrow	csubj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 days	det
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talking	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 sparrow	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sparrow	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sparrow	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sparrow	det
18	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancing	appos
19	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sparrow	acl
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 hopping	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cage	cc
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 cage	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 cage	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 cage	nmod:poss
25	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hopping	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dancing	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passed	nsubj
29	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 passed	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 broke	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 broke	cc
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 broke	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rays	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 rays	amod
36	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 broke	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 sun	case
38	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rays	nmod
39	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 passed	conj
40	through	through	ADP	_	42 hedge	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hedge	det
42	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 broke	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 bamboo	case
44	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hedge	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 started	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 man	det
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 man	amod
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 started	nsubj
49	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 passed	conj
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 started	compound:prt
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 thanked	punct
52	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 passed	conj
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 hostess	nmod:poss
54	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 thanked	obj
55	for	for	ADP	_	58 welcome	case
56	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 welcome	nmod:poss
57	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 welcome	amod
58	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 thanked	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 prepared	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 prepared	cc
61	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 passed	parataxis
62	to	to	PART	_	63 say	mark
63	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 prepared	xcomp
64	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	63 say	discourse
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	the night not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	gerund				day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the maiden	a sparrow				tree rules
4	hop in	gerund	a sparrow not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pass away	past	the night		dancing		away, thus property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	break	past	the first rays of sun		the hedge of bamboo			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hedge=Location
7	start up	past	the old man					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	thank speech: thank	past	the night not said here	man's hostess			for life's friendly welcome	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hostess=Theme for welcome=Attribute
9	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the night not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	ray			sun				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
11	welcome		life					nom welcome «state transitive»: 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 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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