The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 79

For several years they all lived happily together, when one day, as the girl was out on the hill with the kids, the sun grew dark and an air cold as a thick white mist came creeping, creeping up from the sea.

Who acts: men, girl, one day, thick white mist · What happens: live, be, grow, come, creep, creep up · To what, where: hill, sea

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, girl, one day, thick white mist), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	happily	happily	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
8	together	together	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 grew	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hill	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 hill	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hill	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hill	cop
18	out	out	ADV	_	21 hill	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 hill	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hill	det
21	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 kids	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kids	det
24	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hill	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun	det
27	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grew	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cold	cc
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cold	nsubj
33	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grew	conj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 came	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 mist	det
36	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mist	amod
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mist	amod
38	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cold	advcl
40	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 came	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 creeping	punct
42	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 creeping	conj
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 creeping	compound:prt
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 sea	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sea	det
46	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 creeping	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	men = man		year	happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the girl	the hill		with the kids; out property	tree rules
3	grow	past	one day			dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	a thick white mist				tree rules
5	creep	gerund	a thick white mist not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	creep up	gerund	a thick white mist not said here	the sea			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sea=Trajectory

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/79/