The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 199
Lark and cuckoo, daily sing-- February has brought the spring!
What happens: bring · To what, where: February
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cuckoo | cc |
| 3 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lark | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sing | punct |
| 5 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sing | amod |
| 6 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lark | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 8 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Lark | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spring | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect · passive | February | spring | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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