The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 32

Fruit trees and bushes loaded with fruit stood before them, while birds gayer than the brightest butterfly sat in their branches and filled the air with their song.

Who acts: Fruit trees, trees · What happens: load, stand, sit, fill, sing · To what, where: bushes, fruit, branches, air

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fruit trees, trees), 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	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trees	compound
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sat	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bushes	cc
4	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trees	conj
5	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bushes	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 fruit	case
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loaded	obl
8	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fruit	acl
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gayer	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 gayer	mark
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gayer	nsubj
14	gayer	gay	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 trees	acl
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 butterfly	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 butterfly	det
17	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 butterfly	amod
18	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gayer	obl
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 branches	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 branches	nmod:poss
22	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sat	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 filled	cc
24	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 song	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 song	nmod:poss
29	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	participle		bushes not said here			with fruit	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fruit=Theme
2	stand	participle		fruit not said here		before trees = tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
3	sit	past	Fruit trees and bushes		trees's branches			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location
4	fill	past	Fruit trees and bushes not said here	the air			with trees's song	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with song=Instrument
5	sing		trees = tree					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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