The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 117

Then they sat down, and for some time they were too tired even to notice anything; but by-and-by they saw that under the tiles of the roof a number of swallows were sitting, chattering merrily to each other.

Who acts: boy, swallows · What happens: sit down, be, notice, see, sit, chatter · To what, where: anything, tiles, number, each

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, swallows), 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	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tired	cc
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tired	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tired	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	parataxis
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 notice	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 notice	mark
16	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tired	advcl
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 notice	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 saw	mark
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 saw	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 tiles	mark
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 tiles	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tiles	det
30	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 saw	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 roof	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 roof	det
33	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tiles	nmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 number	det
35	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 roof	conj
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 sitting	mark
37	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sitting	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sitting	aux
39	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 number	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 chattering	punct
41	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 sitting	advcl
42	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	41 chattering	advmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 each	case
44	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	41 chattering	obl
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 each	fixed
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	boy			then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	boy			time	tired property	tree rules
3	notice	to-infinitive	boy not said here	anything				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
4	see	past	boy	the tiles of the roof and a number				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tile=Stimulus
5	sit	past · progressive	swallows	a number not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=Theme
6	chatter	gerund	swallows not said here		each		merrily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

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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