The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 46
Before they ceased to sound, came a great flight of birds, and each one perching upon a bell added its charming song to the concert.
Who acts: bells, great flight, one, flight · What happens: cease, sound, come, perch, add, sing · To what, where: bell, one
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (bells, great flight, one, flight), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 ceased | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sound | mark |
| 5 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ceased | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flight | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flight | amod |
| 10 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 birds | case |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 added | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 added | cc |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 added | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | perching | perch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 one | acl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 bell | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bell | det |
| 20 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perching | obl |
| 21 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | parataxis |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 song | nmod:poss |
| 23 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 song | compound |
| 24 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 added | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 concert | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 concert | det |
| 27 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 added | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | bells = bell | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sound | to-infinitive | bells = bell not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past | a great flight of birds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perch | gerund | each one not said here | a bell | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bell=Location | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | participle · passive | each one | to the concert | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sing | flight | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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