The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 64

The weavers, however, were accustomed to swim over this ravine; therefore, regardless of the fact that this time it was dry, they stripped, and, tying their clothes on their heads, they proceeded to swim across the dry sand and rocks that formed the bed of the ravine.

Who acts: time, plans, dry sand · What happens: accustom, swim, be, strip, tie, proceed · To what, where: weavers, ravine, fact, clothes, dry sand, bed

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, plans, dry sand), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weavers	det
2	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 accustomed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 weavers	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 accustomed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 accustomed	aux:pass
7	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 swim	mark
9	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 accustomed	xcomp
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 ravine	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 ravine	det
12	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swim	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 regardless	punct
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	16 regardless	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 therefore	punct
16	regardless	regardless	ADV	_	7 accustomed	advmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 fact	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fact	det
19	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 regardless	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 dry	mark
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dry	nsubj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dry	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dry	cop
25	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fact	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stripped	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stripped	nsubj
28	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dry	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tying	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tying	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tying	punct
32	tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 stripped	advcl
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 clothes	nmod:poss
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 tying	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 heads	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 heads	nmod:poss
37	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tying	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 proceeded	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 proceeded	nsubj
40	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stripped	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 swim	mark
42	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 proceeded	xcomp
43	across	across	ADP	_	46 sand	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sand	det
45	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sand	amod
46	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 swim	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 rocks	cc
48	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 sand	conj
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 formed	nsubj
50	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 sand	acl:relcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bed	det
52	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 formed	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 ravine	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 ravine	det
55	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bed	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accustom	past · passive		the weavers		however, regardless property	tree rules
2	swim	to-infinitive			this ravine		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ravine=Trajectory
3	is	past	this time	the fact not said here		dry property	tree rules
4	strip	past	plans = plan				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tie	gerund	plans = plan not said here	plans's clothes		on plans's heads	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient on head=Co-Patient
6	proceed	past	plans = plan				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	swim	to-infinitive	plans = plan not said here		the dry sand and rocks		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sand=Trajectory
8	form	past	the dry sand and rocks	the bed of the ravine			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bed=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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