The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 52

Over the bed hung a bird’s cage, and the bird inside it was singing beautiful songs into the silent space.

Who acts: bird · What happens: hang, sing · To what, where: cage, bed, beautiful songs, silent space

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 (bird), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	3 bed	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bed	det
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cage	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 bird	case
8	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 singing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 singing	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 singing	nsubj
13	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bird	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 singing	aux
16	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hung	advcl
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 songs	amod
18	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 singing	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 space	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 space	det
21	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 space	amod
22	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 singing	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past		a bird's cage		the bed			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cage=Theme over bed=Destination
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the bird inside bed	beautiful songs		the silent space			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic into space=Recipient

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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