The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 47
And how beautiful everything on the other side was! lovely green paths leading through woods and fields covered with flowers, birds with gold and silver feathers singing on the trees, lovely butterflies and glittering beetles fluttered and crawled about, and dear little beasts hid in the bushes and hedges.
Who acts: lovely green paths, silver feathers, beetles, dear little beasts · What happens: be, lead, cover, sing, glitter, flutter · To what, where: lovely green paths, woods, trees, bushes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely green paths, silver feathers, beetles, dear little beasts), 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 | _ | 4 everything | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 beautiful | advmod |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 everything | amod |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 everything | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 paths | cop |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 paths | punct |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 paths | amod |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 paths | amod |
| 13 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 side | nmod |
| 14 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 paths | acl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 woods | case |
| 16 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leading | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fields | cc |
| 18 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 woods | conj |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 woods | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 birds | punct |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flowers | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 birds | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 feathers | cc |
| 27 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 feathers | compound |
| 28 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gold | conj |
| 29 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 feathers | acl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 trees | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 trees | det |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 singing | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 butterflies | punct |
| 34 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 butterflies | amod |
| 35 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 trees | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 glittering | cc |
| 37 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 singing | conj |
| 38 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 fluttered | nsubj |
| 39 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 glittering | ccomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 crawled | cc |
| 41 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 fluttered | conj |
| 42 | about | about | ADV | _ | 41 crawled | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 hid | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 hid | cc |
| 45 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 beasts | amod |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 beasts | amod |
| 47 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 hid | nsubj |
| 48 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 fluttered | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 bushes | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 bushes | det |
| 51 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 hid | obl |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 hedges | cc |
| 53 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 bushes | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 everything | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lovely green paths | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | lovely green paths not said here | woods and fields | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | woods and fields not said here | with flowers and birds with gold and silver feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | silver feathers not said here | the trees and lovely butterflies | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | glitter | gerund | silver feathers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | flutter | past | beetles | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | crawl | past | beetles not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hide | past | dear little beasts | the bushes and hedges | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location |
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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