The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 126

All the birds who had sung so sweetly about her had flown away; the trees shed their leaves, the flowers died; the great clover-leaf under which she had lived curled up, and nothing remained of it but the withered stalk.

Who acts: birds, trees, flowers, flower, nothing · What happens: sing, fly away, shed, die, live, curl up · To what, where: birds, leaves, great clover 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 (birds, trees, flowers, flower), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 birds	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flown	nsubj:pass
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sung	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sung	aux
6	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 birds	acl:relcl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 sweetly	advmod
8	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	6 sung	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sung	obl
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flown	aux
12	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 flown	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 shed	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trees	det
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shed	nsubj
17	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flown	parataxis
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 leaves	nmod:poss
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 died	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flowers	det
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shed	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 leaf	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 leaf	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 leaf	amod
27	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leaf	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 clover	punct
29	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flown	obl
30	under	under	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 lived	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lived	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lived	aux
34	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 leaf	acl:relcl
35	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 lived	xcomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 curled	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 remained	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 remained	cc
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 remained	nsubj
40	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flown	parataxis
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 remained	obl
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 stalk	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 stalk	det
45	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 stalk	amod
46	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 remained	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 flown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · perfect	all birds			about THUMBELINA; sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about she=Location
2	fly away	past · perfect · passive		all birds		the great clover leaf obl; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	shed	past	the trees	birds's leaves			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Source
4	die	past	the flowers				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	live	past · perfect	flower		the great clover leaf		tree rules
6	curl up	participle	flower not said here				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
7	remain	past	nothing			of tree	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wither	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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