The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 10

It was a beautiful evening; the sun shone brightly between the stems of the trees among the dark green leaves of the forest, and the turtle-dove sang clearly on the old maybushes.

Who acts: care, sun, turtle dove · What happens: be, shine, sing, stem · To what, where: beautiful evening, stems, old maybushes, trees

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, sun, turtle dove), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 evening	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 evening	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 evening	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evening	amod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 shone	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shone	nsubj
9	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 evening	parataxis
10	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	9 shone	advmod
11	between	between	ADP	_	13 stems	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stems	det
13	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shone	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 trees	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trees	det
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stems	nmod
17	among	among	ADP	_	21 leaves	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 leaves	det
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
20	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 trees	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaves	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sang	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sang	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dove	det
28	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dove	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 turtle	punct
30	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sang	nsubj
31	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shone	conj
32	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	31 sang	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 maybushes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 maybushes	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 maybushes	amod
36	maybushes	maybush	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sang	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 evening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	care	a beautiful evening			tree rules
2	shine	past	the sun		the stems of the trees among the dark green leaves of the forest	brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between stem=Location
3	sing speech: express	past	the turtle dove		the old maybushes	clearly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on maybush=Location
4	stem			the trees among the dark green leaves of the forest			nom stem «communication 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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