The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 83

One day he was sitting under a bush playing so sweetly that you might easily have mistaken the notes for those of a bird, when an old man passed by.

Who acts: man, you, old man · What happens: sit, play, mistake, pass by · To what, where: bush, notes

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, old man), 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 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 bush	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bush	det
8	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sweetly	advmod
11	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	9 playing	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 mistaken	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 mistaken	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 mistaken	aux
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	17 mistaken	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 mistaken	aux
17	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 playing	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 notes	det
19	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mistaken	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 notes	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bird	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bird	det
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 those	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 passed	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 passed	advmod
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 passed	nsubj
30	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sitting	advcl
31	by	by	ADP	_	30 passed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	man		a bush	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location
2	play	gerund					sweetly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mistake	might · perfect	you	the notes			for those; easily property	tree rules
4	pass by	participle	a old man					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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