--- title: Every day, when his work was done, he used to go up to the house, ha… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Every day, when his work was done, he used to go up to the house, half hidden among flowering plants and brilliant creepers, where humming-birds darted from bush to bush, and parrots of all colours, red and green and grey, shrieked in chorus. Who acts: Alonzo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:10:54 # text = Every day, when his work was done, he used to go up to the house, half hidden among flowering plants and brilliant creepers, where humming-birds darted from bush to bush, and parrots of all colours, red and green and grey, shrieked in chorus. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 17 conj _ _ 20 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 among among ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 flowering flower VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 creepers creeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 nmod _ _ 29 humming hum VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 darted dart VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 bush bush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 appos _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 shrieked shriek VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 conj _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 chorus chorus NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · passive | | Alonzo's work | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **use** | past | Alonzo | | | | day | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **go up** | to-infinitive | Alonzo *not said here* | | | | | to the house and half | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **hide** | participle | | half *not said here* | | flowering plants and brilliant creepers | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among plant=Location | | 5 | **flower** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hum** | gerund | | birds and parrots of all colours | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | | 7 | **dart** | participle | | birds and parrots of all colours *not said here* | | bush | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bush=Trajectory | | 8 | **bush** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **shriek** | participle | | | | chorus | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chorus=Location | | 10 | **work** | | Alonzo | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/55/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/)