The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 187

The little singing-bird flies all around, to the poor fisherman’s hut, to the farmer’s cottage, to all those who are far away from you and your Court.

Who acts: little singing bird · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: hut

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little singing bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 singing	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flies	nsubj
6	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 around	advmod
8	around	around	ADV	_	6 flies	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hut	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	15 hut	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fisherman	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fisherman	amod
13	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hut	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 fisherman	case
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flies	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cottage	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 cottage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 farmer	det
19	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cottage	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 farmer	case
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flies	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 those	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 those	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 those	det:predet
25	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 cottage	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 away	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 away	cop
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 away	advmod
29	away	away	ADV	_	25 those	acl:relcl
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 away	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Court	cc
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Court	nmod:poss
34	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 you	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	the little singing bird			the poor fisherman's hut		around property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination
2	is	present						from you; away, far property	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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