More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 41

One Sunday he was walking across the west field, 't was a beautiful July night, warm and still and the air was full of little sounds as though the trees and grass were chattering to themselves.

Who acts: lad, t, air, trees · What happens: walk, be, chatter · To what, where: west field, beautiful night, trees

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, t, air, trees), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Sunday	nummod
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	aux
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 field	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
8	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 field	compound
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 night	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 t	punct
12	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 night	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 night	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 night	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	amod
16	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 night	nmod:unmarked
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 warm	punct
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 still	cc
21	still	still	ADV	_	19 warm	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 full	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 full	cop
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 warm	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sounds	case
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sounds	amod
29	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 full	obl
30	as	as	ADV	_	26 full	advmod
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 chattering	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 chattering	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 grass	cc
35	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trees	conj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 chattering	aux
37	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 full	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 themselves	case
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 chattering	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	lad			the west field	sunday		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory
2	is a	past	t	a beautiful night			july		tree rules
3	is	past	the air					of little sounds; full property	tree rules
4	chatter	past · progressive	the trees and grass		trees = tree				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to themselves=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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