The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 3

And the Blue Bird, who had never ceased to flutter round within sight and hearing of her prison, came in an instant.

Who acts: Blue Bird, prison · What happens: not cease, flutter, come, hear · To what, where: Blue Bird, instant

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Blue Bird, prison), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bird	det
3	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bird	amod
4	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ceased	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ceased	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ceased	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 ceased	advmod
9	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Bird	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 flutter	mark
11	flutter	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ceased	xcomp
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 flutter	advmod
13	within	within	ADP	_	14 sight	case
14	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flutter	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hearing	cc
16	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sight	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 prison	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 prison	nmod:poss
19	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hearing	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Bird	punct
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 instant	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 instant	det
24	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not cease	past · perfect · passive		the Blue Bird			tree rules
2	flutter	to-infinitive				within sight and hearing of Bird's prison; round property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the Blue Bird		a instant		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location
4	hear		Bird's prison				nom hearing «act 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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