The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 88

When the first ray of light entered the room, he noticed that the little blue flower began to tremble, and at last it rose out of the pot and flew about the room, put everything in order, swept away the dust, and lit the fire.

Who acts: first ray, room, little blue flower, flower · What happens: enter, notice, begin, tremble, rise, fly · To what, where: room, last, everything, order, dust, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first ray, room, little blue flower, flower), 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	7 entered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ray	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 ray	amod
4	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ray	nmod
7	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 noticed	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 entered	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 noticed	nsubj
12	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 began	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flower	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flower	amod
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flower	amod
17	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 noticed	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tremble	mark
20	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rose	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rose	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rose	nsubj
26	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 noticed	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 pot	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pot	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pot	det
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rose	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flew	cc
32	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rose	conj
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 room	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 room	det
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flew	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
37	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 noticed	parataxis
38	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	37 put	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 order	case
40	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 swept	punct
42	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 noticed	parataxis
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 swept	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 dust	det
45	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 swept	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lit	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 lit	cc
48	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 swept	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 fire	det
50	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lit	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the first ray of light	the room			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	notice	past	room				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	begin	past	the little blue flower				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tremble	to-infinitive	the little blue flower not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rise	past	flower		last	out the pot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
6	fly	past	flower not said here			about the room	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Location
7	put	infinitive		everything	order		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in order=Destination
8	sweep away	past		the dust		away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dust=Trajectory
9	light	past		the fire			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
10	ray			light			nom ray «phenomenon 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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