The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 34

Roses and lilies bloomed on both sides, and in the centre a thicket seemed to grow with rabbits and hares running through it, stags and fawns peeping through the branches, whilst on the topmost boughs sat birds of brilliant plumage and so life-like one almost expected to hear them sing.

Who acts: thicket, hares, fawns, topmost boughs, Roses, birds · What happens: bloom, seem, grow, run, peep, sit · To what, where: Roses, sides, centre, thicket, birds

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thicket, hares, fawns, topmost boughs), 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	Roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 expected	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lilies	cc
3	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Roses	conj
4	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Roses	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 sides	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sides	det
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bloomed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 expected	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 expected	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 centre	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 centre	det
12	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 expected	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thicket	det
14	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 centre	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 grow	mark
17	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seemed	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 rabbits	case
19	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grow	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hares	cc
21	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rabbits	conj
22	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 hares	acl
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 running	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stags	punct
26	stags	stag	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rabbits	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fawns	cc
28	fawns	fawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rabbits	conj
29	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 fawns	acl
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 branches	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 branches	det
32	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 peeping	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sat	punct
34	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	39 sat	mark
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 boughs	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 boughs	det
37	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 boughs	amod
38	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sat	nsubj
39	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grow	advcl
40	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sat	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 plumage	case
42	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 plumage	amod
43	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 birds	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 one	cc
45	so	so	ADV	_	48 like	advmod
46	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 like	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 life	punct
48	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 one	amod
49	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 centre	conj
50	almost	almost	ADV	_	51 expected	advmod
51	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
52	to	to	PART	_	53 hear	mark
53	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 expected	xcomp
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 hear	obj
55	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 hear	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bloom	participle		Roses and lilies not said here	both sides		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	seem	past	a thicket	the centre and like one not said here			tree rules
3	grow	to-infinitive	a thicket not said here			with rabbits and hares and stags and fawns	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	gerund	hares not said here		thicket		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory
5	peep	gerund	fawns not said here			through the branches	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through branch=Theme
6	sit	past	the topmost boughs	birds of brilliant plumage			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
7	expect	past	Roses and lilies		the centre and like one	almost property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	Roses and lilies not said here	birds = bird			tree rules
9	sing speech: express	infinitive	birds = bird not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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