The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 47
They rose up and stood for some time listening to the birds singing, because Grannonia delighted in their songs.
Who acts: inhabitants, time, birds, Grannonia · What happens: rise up, stand, listen, sing, delight · To what, where: songs
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, time, birds, Grannonia), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rose | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 time | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 birds | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 birds | det |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 listening | obl |
| 13 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 birds | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 delighted | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 delighted | mark |
| 16 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 delighted | nsubj |
| 17 | delighted | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 songs | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 songs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 delighted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | inhabitants = inhabitant not said here | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | some time not said here | to the birds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | the birds not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | delight | past | Grannonia | inhabitants's songs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | sing | inhabitants = inhabitant | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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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