The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 4

So they bewailed their fate, one to the other, and for a while they did not perceive that the girl's husband was sitting in their midst, leaning his gun against a tree.

Who acts: girls, husband · What happens: bewail, not perceive, sit, lean, fate · To what, where: fate, midst, gun, tree

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, husband), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 bewailed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bewailed	nsubj
3	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fate	nmod:poss
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bewailed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fate	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 perceive	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 perceive	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 while	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 while	det
15	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 perceive	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 perceive	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 perceive	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 perceive	advmod
19	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bewailed	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 sitting	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 husband	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 girl	case
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sitting	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sitting	aux
26	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 perceive	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 midst	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 midst	nmod:poss
29	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sitting	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 leaning	punct
31	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sitting	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 gun	nmod:poss
33	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leaning	obj
34	against	against	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leaning	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bewailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	bewail	past	girls = girl	girls's fate			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus
2	not perceive	past · do-support	girls = girl			while	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	sit	past · progressive	the girl's husband		girls's midst		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location
4	lean	gerund	the girl's husband not said here	husband's gun	a tree		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gun=Theme against tree=Destination
5	fate		girls = girl				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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