The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 126

The next day, when he got up, he saw that all the houses were wreathed with flowers and covered with flags, and all the church bells were ringing.

Who acts: John, church bells · What happens: get up, see, wreathe, cover, ring · To what, where: houses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, church bells), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 got	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wreathed	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 houses	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 houses	det
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wreathed	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wreathed	aux:pass
17	wreathed	wreathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saw	ccomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wreathed	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 covered	cc
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wreathed	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 flags	case
23	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 covered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ringing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ringing	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 bells	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bells	det
28	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bells	compound
29	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ringing	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ringing	aux
31	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 saw	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	John				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	past	John		day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	wreathe	past · passive		all houses		with flowers	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme
4	cover	participle				with flags	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flag=Theme
5	ring	past · progressive	all church bells				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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