The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 56

At last the night arrived, and all the little birds were asleep high up on the branches of a big tree.

Who acts: night, little birds · What happens: arrive, be · To what, where: last, branches

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 (night, little birds), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arrived	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asleep	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asleep	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 birds	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 birds	amod
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 asleep	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asleep	cop
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arrived	conj
14	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 up	advmod
15	up	up	ADV	_	13 asleep	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 branches	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 branches	det
18	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 asleep	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tree	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	amod
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 branches	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the night			last			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	all little birds			the branches of a big tree		asleep property	tree rules

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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