The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 45

In this lake various huge monsters might be seen playing or fighting--the queen did not know which-- and around flew rooks and ravens, uttering dismal croaks.

Who acts: various huge monsters, queen · What happens: see, play, fight, not know, fly, utter · To what, where: various huge monsters, lake, rooks, dismal croaks

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (various huge monsters, queen), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 lake	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 lake	det
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obl
4	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monsters	amod
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monsters	amod
6	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 seen	nsubj:pass
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	aux:pass
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 seen	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 fighting	cc
12	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 playing	conj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 queen	det
15	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 know	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	conj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 know	obj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 flew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flew	cc
22	around	around	ADV	_	23 flew	advmod
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	parataxis
24	rooks	rook	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flew	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ravens	cc
26	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rooks	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 uttering	punct
28	uttering	utter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 flew	conj
29	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 croaks	amod
30	croaks	croak	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 uttering	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	might · passive		various huge monsters	this lake		tree rules
2	play	gerund	various huge monsters not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fight	gerund	various huge monsters not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not know	past · do-support	the queen				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
5	fly	past		rooks and ravens		around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rook=Theme
6	utter speech: other	gerund		dismal croaks			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent croak=Topic

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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