The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 16

The moss was dry and the plants green, while the grass seemed all alive with the hum of bees and cockchafers.

Who acts: moss, plants, grass, bees · What happens: be, seem, hum

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moss, plants, grass, bees), 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 moss	det
2	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	cop
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 green	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plants	det
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 green	nsubj
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dry	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 seemed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grass	det
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	parataxis
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 alive	advmod
15	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seemed	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 hum	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hum	det
18	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 bees	case
20	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hum	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cockchafers	cc
22	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bees	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moss	dry property	tree rules
2	be		the plants		tree rules
3	seem	past	the grass	with the hum of bees and cockchafers; alive property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	hum		bees and cockchafers		nom hum «state intransitive»: of=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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