Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 9

They were running here and there, and gathering the cow-slips that were blooming among the grass.

Who acts: children, cow slips · What happens: run, gather, bloom · To what, where: cow slips, grass

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, cow slips), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 running	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 running	aux
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 running	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 there	cc
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 here	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gathering	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gathering	cc
9	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 running	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 slips	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slips	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cow	punct
13	slips	slip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gathering	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 blooming	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 blooming	aux
16	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 slips	acl:relcl
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 grass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blooming	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 running	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	children = child		here	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	gerund	children = child not said here	the cow slips		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme
3	bloom	past · progressive	the cow slips		the grass	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among grass=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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