The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 28

All the way home he felt in such good spirits that he sang and whistled as he walked through the wood, and never noticed how the birds were twittering and laughing at him.

Who acts: man, birds · What happens: feel, sing, whistle, walk, not notice, twitter · To what, where: way, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 way	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 way	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 spirits	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spirits	amod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spirits	amod
10	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 felt	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 sang	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sang	nsubj
13	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 whistled	cc
15	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sang	conj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 walked	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walked	nsubj
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whistled	ccomp
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 wood	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 noticed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 noticed	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 noticed	advmod
25	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	conj
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 twittering	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 birds	det
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 twittering	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 twittering	aux
30	twittering	twitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 noticed	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 laughing	cc
32	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 twittering	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laughing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	man	all way		in such good spirits	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in spirit=Attribute
2	sing speech: express	past	man				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	whistle	past	man not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	walk	past	man		the wood		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
5	not notice	past	man not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	twitter	past · progressive	the birds				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	laugh	gerund	the birds not said here			at man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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