The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 132

It was very quiet in the forest, and Rasmus could hear the deer and foxes and other animals moving about among the rustling leaves.

Who acts: watch, Rasmus, other animals · What happens: be, hear, move about · To what, where: forest, deer, rustling leaves

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watch, Rasmus, other animals), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quiet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 quiet	advmod
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quiet	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
10	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 quiet	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deer	det
14	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hear	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 foxes	cc
16	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 deer	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 animals	cc
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 animals	amod
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 deer	conj
20	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 animals	acl
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 moving	advmod
22	among	among	ADP	_	25 leaves	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 leaves	det
24	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leaves	compound
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 moving	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	watch		the forest	quiet property	tree rules
2	hear	could	Rasmus	the deer and foxes and other animals			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus
3	move about	gerund	other animals not said here		the rustling leaves	about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme among leaf=Trajectory

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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