The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 106

On she sailed past several towns, and the little birds sitting in the bushes saw her, and sang, ‘What a pretty little girl!’

Who acts: leaf, little birds · What happens: sail, sit, see, sing, girl · To what, where: several towns, bushes, leaf

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, little 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 sailed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 towns	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 towns	amod
6	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sailed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 birds	amod
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	nsubj
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 birds	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bushes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bushes	det
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sitting	obl
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sang	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sang	cc
20	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 girl	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 girl	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 girl	nsubj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 girl	det
25	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	26 little	advmod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 girl	amod
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sang	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 girl	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sail	past	leaf		several towns	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past town=Trajectory
2	sit	gerund	the little birds not said here		the bushes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location
3	see	past	the little birds	leaf		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express	past	leaf not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	girl					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 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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