The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 33

And the birds were not shy, but let the girls take them in their hands, and stroke their gold and silver feathers.

Who acts: birds, girls · What happens: not be, let, take, stroke · To what, where: birds, hands, gold

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 (birds, girls), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 shy	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shy	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 shy	advmod
6	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 shy	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girls	det
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	nsubj
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	ccomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stroke	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stroke	cc
19	stroke	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 take	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 gold	nmod:poss
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stroke	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feathers	cc
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feathers	compound
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gold	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the birds			shy property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive					tree rules
3	take	present	the girls	birds = bird	birds's hands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in hand=Location
4	stroke	present	the girls not said here	birds's gold and silver feathers			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

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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