The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 84

When the sun shone the Blue Bird, hidden in the tall fir-tree, sang to her so sweetly that all the passersby wondered, and said that the wood was inhabited by a spirit.

Who acts: sun, passersby, spirit · What happens: shine, hide, sing, wonder, say, inhabit · To what, where: Blue Bird, tall fir tree, tree, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (sun, passersby, spirit), 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 shone	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sang	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bird	det
6	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Bird	amod
7	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hidden	punct
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Bird	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	15 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
13	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 fir	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sang	punct
17	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sang	obl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 sweetly	advmod
21	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	17 sang	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 wondered	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 passersby	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 passersby	det
25	passersby	passerby	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wondered	nsubj
26	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sweetly	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sang	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 inhabited	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wood	det
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 inhabited	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 inhabited	aux:pass
34	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 said	ccomp
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 spirit	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 spirit	det
37	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 inhabited	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun	the Blue Bird				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	hide	participle		the Blue Bird not said here		the tall fir tree		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
3	sing speech: express	past			tree		sweetly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	wonder speech: ask	past	all passersby					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	inhabit	past · passive	a spirit	the wood				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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