The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 61

They were all gathered round the heap of pink cushions on which the baby lay asleep, when a shadow seemed to fall between them and the sun, while a cold wind blew through the room.

Who acts: baby, shadow, cold wind · What happens: gather, lie, seem, fall, blow · To what, where: fairies, pink cushions, room

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 (baby, shadow, cold wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:1409): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gathered	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 gathered	advmod
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 heap	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heap	det
7	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gathered	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cushions	case
9	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cushions	amod
10	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heap	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lay	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 baby	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cushions	acl:relcl
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lay	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 seemed	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shadow	det
20	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 fall	mark
23	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seemed	xcomp
24	between	between	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fall	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sun	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 them	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 blew	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 blew	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wind	det
32	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wind	amod
33	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blew	nsubj
34	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seemed	advcl
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 room	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 room	det
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blew	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past · passive		fairies = fairy		round the heap of pink cushions; all property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lie	past	the baby		pink cushions	asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
3	seem	past	a shadow				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	fall	to-infinitive	a shadow not said here			between fairies = fairy	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between they=Location
5	blow	past	a cold wind		the room		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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