The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 64

Once, long ago, in a little town that lay in the midst of high hills and wild forests, a party of shepherds sat one night in the kitchen of the inn talking over old times, and telling of the strange things that had befallen them in their youth.

Who acts: little town, party, inn, strange things · What happens: lie, sit, talk, tell, befall · To what, where: midst, little town, things, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little town, party, inn, strange things), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 ago	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ago	punct
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ago	advmod
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	26 sat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ago	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 town	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 town	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 town	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 midst	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 midst	det
14	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hills	case
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hills	amod
17	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 midst	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 forests	cc
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 forests	amod
20	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hills	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 town	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 party	det
23	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 shepherds	case
25	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 party	nmod
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 night	nummod
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl:unmarked
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 kitchen	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 kitchen	det
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 inn	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 inn	det
34	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kitchen	nmod
35	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 inn	acl
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 times	case
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 times	amod
38	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 talking	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 telling	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 telling	cc
41	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 things	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 things	det
44	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 things	amod
45	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 telling	obl
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 befallen	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 befallen	aux
48	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 things	acl:relcl
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 befallen	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 youth	case
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 youth	nmod:poss
52	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 befallen	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a little town		the midst of high hills and wild forests			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location
2	sit	past	a party of shepherds		a little town	night	in the kitchen of the inn; ago property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in town=Location
3	talk	gerund	the inn not said here			time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	a party of shepherds not said here				of the strange things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	befall	past · perfect	the strange things	things = thing	things's youth			tree rules

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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