The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 102

Then all along the banks of the Zambesi river, which flowed near by, sprang up streets of stone buildings, and their roofs shone with gold and burnished iron like those in Pita; and in the streets men and women were walking, and young boys were driving out the sheep and cattle to pasture; and from the river came shouts and laughter from the young men and maidens who had launched their canoes and were fishing.

Who acts: Zambesi river, you, roofs, men, young boys, river · What happens: flow, sprang up, shine, burnish, walk, drive out · To what, where: streets, iron, sheep, river, canoes, fishing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zambesi river, you, roofs, men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	ADV	_	16 sprang	advmod
3	along	along	ADP	_	5 banks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 banks	det
5	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sprang	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
8	Zambesi	Zambesi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 river	compound
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banks	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flowed	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 flowed	nsubj
12	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 river	acl:relcl
13	near	near	ADV	_	12 flowed	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	12 flowed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 banks	punct
16	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 sprang	compound:prt
18	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sprang	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 buildings	case
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 buildings	compound
21	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 streets	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shone	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shone	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 roofs	nmod:poss
25	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shone	nsubj
26	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sprang	parataxis
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 gold	case
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shone	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 burnished	cc
30	burnished	burnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 shone	conj
31	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 burnished	obj
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 those	case
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 burnished	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 Pita	case
35	Pita	Pita	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 those	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 walking	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 walking	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 streets	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 streets	det
40	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 walking	obl
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 walking	nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 women	cc
43	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 men	conj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 walking	aux
45	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sprang	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 driving	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 driving	cc
48	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 boys	amod
49	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 driving	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 driving	aux
51	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 walking	conj
52	out	out	ADP	_	51 driving	compound:prt
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 sheep	det
54	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 driving	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 cattle	cc
56	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 sheep	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 pasture	mark
58	pasture	pasture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 driving	advcl
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	65 shouts	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 shouts	cc
61	from	from	ADP	_	63 river	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 river	det
63	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 shouts	obl
64	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 river	acl
65	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sprang	parataxis
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 laughter	cc
67	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 shouts	conj
68	from	from	ADP	_	71 men	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 men	det
70	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 men	amod
71	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 laughter	nmod
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 maidens	cc
73	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 men	conj
74	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	76 launched	nsubj
75	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	76 launched	aux
76	launched	launch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	73 maidens	acl:relcl
77	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	78 canoes	nmod:poss
78	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	76 launched	obj
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 fishing	cc
80	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 fishing	cop
81	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 launched	conj
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flow	past	the Zambesi river			near property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sprang up	imperative	you not said here	streets of stone buildings		along the banks of the Zambesi river; all property	tree rules
3	shine	participle	buildings's roofs			with gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme
4	burnish	participle	buildings's roofs not said here	iron		like those	tree rules
5	walk	past · progressive	men and women		the streets		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Trajectory
6	drive out	past · progressive	young boys	the sheep and cattle			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
7	pasture	to-infinitive	young boys not said here				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	come	past	the river not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	shout speech: express	present			the river		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	launch	past · perfect	maidens	men's canoes			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme
11	is a	past	maidens not said here	fishing			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 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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