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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 83

Everything seemed to turn to gold in his hands, till one day, when he and his son were sitting in the orchard watching their herds of cattle grazing in the meadows, he suddenly said: “Peter, my boy, it is time that you were thinking of marrying.”

Who acts: Everything, man, orchard, cattle, meadow, time · What happens: seem, turn, sit, watch, graze, say · To what, where: hands, orchard, herds, meadows, time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, man, orchard, cattle), 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

nsubjmarkxcompcaseoblcasenmod:possoblpunctcasenummodoblpunctmarknsubjccnmod:possconjauxaclcasedetoblaclnmod:possobjcasenmodaclcasedetoblpunctnsubjadvmodparataxispunctpunctccomppunctnmod:possappospunctnsubjcopapposnsubjnsubjauxacl:relclmarkadvclpunctpunctrootEverythingPRONseemedVERBtoPARTturnVERBtoADPgoldNOUNinADPhisPRONhandsNOUN,PUNCTtillADPoneNUMdayNOUN,PUNCTwhenSCONJhePRONandCCONJhisPRONsonNOUNwereAUXsittingVERBinADPtheDETorchardNOUNwatchingVERBtheirPRONherdsNOUNofADPcattleNOUNgrazingVERBinADPtheDETmeadowsNOUN,PUNCThePRONsuddenlyADVsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTPeterPROPN,PUNCTmyPRONboyNOUN,PUNCTitPRONisAUXtimeNOUNthatPRONyouPRONwereAUXthinkingVERBofSCONJmarryingVERB.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EverythingeverythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot2 seemednsubj
2seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoPART_4 turnmark
4turnturnVERBVerbForm=Inf2 seemedxcomp
5totoADP_6 goldcase
6goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing4 turnobl
7ininADP_9 handscase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 handsnmod:poss
9handshandNOUNNumber=Plur4 turnobl
10,,PUNCT_13 daypunct
11tilltillADP_13 daycase
12oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card13 daynummod
13daydayNOUNNumber=Sing4 turnobl
14,,PUNCT_21 sittingpunct
15whenwhenSCONJ_21 sittingmark
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 sittingnsubj
17andandCCONJ_19 soncc
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 sonnmod:poss
19sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing16 heconj
20werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 sittingaux
21sittingsitVERBVerbForm=Ger13 dayacl
22ininADP_24 orchardcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 orcharddet
24orchardorchardNOUNNumber=Sing21 sittingobl
25watchingwatchVERBVerbForm=Ger24 orchardacl
26theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 herdsnmod:poss
27herdsherdNOUNNumber=Plur25 watchingobj
28ofofADP_29 cattlecase
29cattlecattleNOUNNumber=Plur27 herdsnmod
30grazinggrazeVERBVerbForm=Ger29 cattleacl
31ininADP_33 meadowscase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 meadowsdet
33meadowsmeadowNOUNNumber=Plur30 grazingobl
34,,PUNCT_37 saidpunct
35hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 saidnsubj
36suddenlysuddenlyADV_37 saidadvmod
37saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 seemedparataxis
38::PUNCT_40 Peterpunct
39“"PUNCT_40 Peterpunct
40PeterPeterPROPNNumber=Sing37 saidccomp
41,,PUNCT_43 boypunct
42mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 boynmod:poss
43boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing40 Peterappos
44,,PUNCT_47 timepunct
45ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs47 timensubj
46isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin47 timecop
47timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing40 Peterappos
48thatthatPRONPronType=Rel51 thinkingnsubj
49youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs51 thinkingnsubj
50werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin51 thinkingaux
51thinkingthinkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part47 timeacl:relcl
52ofofSCONJ_53 marryingmark
53marryingmarryVERBVerbForm=Ger51 thinkingadvcl
54..PUNCT_40 Peterpunct
55”"PUNCT_2 seemedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seempastEverythingvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2turnto-infinitiveEverything not said hereman's handsdayto goldvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to gold=Trajectory
3sitpast · progressivemanthe orchardvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in orchard=Location
4watchgerundthe orchard not said heregardens's herds of cattlevn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme
5grazegerundcattle not said herethe meadowsvn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6say speech: assertpastmansuddenly propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7is a in a quotepresentmeadowtimetree rules
8think speech: other in a quotepast · progressivetimevn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9marry in a quotegerundtime not said herevn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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