The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 111

Every morning and evening we had diamond-tea, which was the dew, and the whole day long we had sunshine, and the little birds used to tell us stories.

Who acts: we, diamond tea · What happens: have, be, use, tell · To what, where: diamond tea, dew, sunshine, little birds, stories, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, diamond tea), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl:unmarked
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 evening	cc
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	conj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tea	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 diamond	punct
9	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dew	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 dew	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dew	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dew	det
14	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tea	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl:unmarked
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 day	advmod
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 birds	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 birds	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 birds	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 birds	amod
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
29	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 birds	acl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 used	advcl
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tell	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	we	diamond tea and the dew		morning	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient
2	is a	past	diamond tea and the dew	the dew			tree rules
3	have	past	we	sunshine		day	tree rules
4	use	participle		the little birds not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		stories	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient story=Topic

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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