The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 79

When the birds began to sing he could lie still no longer, and climbed out of his window into the branches of one of the great lime-trees that stood before the door.

Who acts: birds, bird, great lime trees · What happens: begin, sing, lie, climb, stand · To what, where: window, door

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 (birds, bird, great lime 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sing	mark
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lie	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lie	aux
9	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sing	conj
10	still	still	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 lie	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 climbed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 climbed	cc
15	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 window	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 window	nmod:poss
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 branches	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 branches	det
22	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 climbed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 branches	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 trees	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trees	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 trees	amod
28	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trees	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 lime	punct
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 stood	nsubj
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 trees	acl:relcl
33	before	before	ADP	_	35 door	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the birds			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the birds not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	could	bird		long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	climb	past		bird's window	into the branches of one of the great lime trees	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out window=Initial_Location into branch=Destination
5	stand	past	the great lime trees	the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location

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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