The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 54

Not a breath of wind moved, not a leaf stirred, all was silent as the grave, only on the still bosom of the lake thirty ducks, with brilliant plumage, swam about in the water.

Who acts: breath, leaf, all · What happens: move, not stir, be, swim, bosom · To what, where: bosom, water, lake

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breath, leaf, all), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 breath	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 breath	det
3	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moved	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breath	nmod
6	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stirred	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stirred	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stirred	nsubj
11	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 moved	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 silent	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 silent	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 silent	cop
15	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stirred	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 grave	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grave	det
18	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 silent	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bosom	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	24 bosom	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 bosom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bosom	det
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 bosom	advmod
24	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moved	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 lake	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lake	det
27	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bosom	nmod
28	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ducks	nummod
29	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lake	nmod:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 plumage	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 plumage	case
32	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plumage	amod
33	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ducks	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 swam	punct
35	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moved	conj
36	about	about	ADV	_	35 swam	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 water	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 water	det
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swam	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past	a breath of wind		the bosom of the lake thirty ducks and brilliant plumage		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on bosom=Trajectory
2	not stir	participle	a leaf				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	all			as the grave; silent property	tree rules
4	swim	past	a breath of wind not said here		the water	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
5	bosom			the lake thirty ducks and brilliant plumage			nom bosom «state transitive»: of=patient

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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