The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 15
The flowers were lovelier, the streams ran quicker, the sunbeams shone brighter, and the fairies seemed gayer.
Who acts: flowers, streams, sunbeams, fairies · What happens: be, run, shine, seem
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, streams, sunbeams, fairies), 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 | 2 flowers | det |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lovelier | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lovelier | cop |
| 4 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streams | det |
| 7 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lovelier | advcl |
| 9 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 ran | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shone | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sunbeams | det |
| 12 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lovelier | parataxis |
| 14 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 shone | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fairies | det |
| 18 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shone | conj |
| 20 | gayer | gay | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lovelier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the flowers | lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the streams | quick property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | the sunbeams | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | the fairies | gay property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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