The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 118

Of course the swallows had no idea that the children understood their language, or they would not have talked so freely; but, as it was, they said whatever came into their heads.

Who acts: swallows, children, language, whatever · What happens: have, understand, not talk, be, say, come · To what, where: idea, language, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (swallows, children, language, whatever), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 swallows	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swallows	det
4	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 understood	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 understood	nsubj
11	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 language	nmod:poss
13	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 understood	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 talked	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 talked	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 talked	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 talked	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 talked	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 talked	aux
20	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 understood	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 freely	advmod
22	freely	freely	ADV	_	20 talked	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 but	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 was	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 was	nsubj
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
32	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	ccomp
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 heads	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 heads	nmod:poss
36	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 came	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the swallows	no idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	understand	past	the children	swallows's language			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
3	not talk	would · perfect	swallows = swallow			freely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	language				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	swallows = swallow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	past	whatever		swallows's heads		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location

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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