The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 68

However, having been transported to her grotto upon my favourite couch, I spent several delicious days, soothed by the soft green light, which was like a beech wood in the spring, and by the murmuring of bees and the tinkle of falling water.

Who acts: I, soft green light, falling water · What happens: transport, spend, soothe, be, fall, murmur · To what, where: bees

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (I, soft green light, falling water), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 transported	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 transported	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 transported	aux:pass
5	transported	transport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 grotto	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grotto	nmod:poss
8	grotto	grotto	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 transported	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 couch	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 couch	nmod:poss
11	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 couch	amod
12	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grotto	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spent	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 spent	nsubj
15	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 transported	conj
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 days	amod
17	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 days	amod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spent	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 soothed	punct
20	soothed	soothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 spent	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	25 light	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 light	det
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 light	amod
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 light	amod
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 soothed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wood	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 wood	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wood	cop
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 wood	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 wood	det
31	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wood	compound
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 light	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 spring	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 spring	det
35	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wood	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 murmuring	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 murmuring	cc
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 murmuring	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 murmuring	det
40	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 transported	parataxis
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 bees	case
42	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 murmuring	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 tinkle	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tinkle	det
45	tinkle	tinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 murmuring	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 water	case
47	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 water	amod
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tinkle	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 transported	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	transport	gerund · perfect · passive				to Placida's grotto upon my favourite couch; however property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
2	spend	past	I		day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	soothe	participle	I not said here			by the soft green light and a beech wood	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the soft green light and a beech wood		spring	like a beech wood	tree rules
5	fall	gerund					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	murmur			bees			nom murmuring «event transitive»: of=patient
7	tinkle		falling water				nom tinkle «event intransitive»: of=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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