The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 2

Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly through the wood, out she comes ruffling and blinking from the old hollow tree.

Who acts: sundown, shadows, light · What happens: fade, rise, come, ruffle, blink · To what, where: sky, wood, old hollow tree

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sundown, shadows, light), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sundown	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 sundown	case
3	sundown	sundown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fades	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fades	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 fades	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
7	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fades	nsubj
9	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fades	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rise	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shadows	det
15	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rise	nsubj
16	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fades	conj
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	16 rise	advmod
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rise	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 comes	punct
22	out	out	ADV	_	24 comes	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 comes	nsubj
24	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fades	conj
25	ruffling	ruffle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 comes	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 blinking	cc
27	blinking	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 ruffling	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	32 tree	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tree	amod
31	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tree	amod
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blinking	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fades	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fade	present	sundown	the sky		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rise	present	the shadows	the wood	slowly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Location
3	come	present	light		out property	tree rules
4	ruffle	gerund	light not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	blink	gerund	light not said here	the old hollow tree		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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