The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 16

Soon the trees put forth their buds, and flowers sprang up under his feet, and instead of thick clouds there was blue sky over his head, and everywhere the birds were singing.

Who acts: trees, flowers, birds · What happens: put, sprang up, be, sing · To what, where: buds, feet, blue sky, head

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, flowers, 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 buds	nmod:poss
7	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sprang	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sprang	cc
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sprang	nsubj
11	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 sprang	compound:prt
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sprang	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sky	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sky	cc
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 clouds	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 clouds	amod
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sky	obl
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sky	cop
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sky	amod
25	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sky	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 singing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 singing	cc
31	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	35 singing	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 birds	det
33	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 singing	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 singing	aux
35	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 put	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	the trees	trees's buds		forth, soon property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bud=Goal
2	sprang up	present	flowers		thing's feet		tree rules
3	is a	past		blue sky	thing's head	instead thick clouds	tree rules
4	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the birds			everywhere property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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