The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 170

‘Farewell, and thank you for your beautiful songs in the summer, when the trees were green, and the sun shone down warmly on us!’

Who acts: trees, sun, your · What happens: thank, be, shine down, sing · To what, where: you

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 (trees, sun, your), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
2	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	5 thank	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thank	cc
5	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 songs	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 songs	nmod:poss
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 songs	amod
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thank	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 summer	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 summer	det
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 songs	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 green	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 green	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 green	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 green	cop
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 songs	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shone	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shone	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shone	nsubj
24	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thank	conj
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 shone	advmod
26	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	24 shone	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 shone	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present		you	for your beautiful songs in the summer	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for song=Attribute
2	is	past	the trees		green property	tree rules
3	shine down	past	the sun		on us; down, warmly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on we=Location
4	sing		your		in the summer	nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl

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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