The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 136

Imagine, when we returned here, we met some linnets who, just as the spring and the flowers and the long days had come, were setting out for the north and the cold?

Who acts: you, we, flowers · What happens: imagine, return, meet, come, set out · To what, where: linnets, spring

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 (you, we, flowers), 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	Imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 returned	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Imagine	parataxis
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 returned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 met	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 met	nsubj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Imagine	parataxis
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 linnets	det
11	linnets	linnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 met	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 spring	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spring	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 spring	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 spring	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spring	det
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 linnets	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flowers	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 days	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 days	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 days	amod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flowers	conj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 spring	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 setting	punct
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 setting	aux
29	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 met	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 setting	compound:prt
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 north	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 north	det
33	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 setting	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cold	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cold	det
36	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 north	conj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	return	past	we		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past	we	some linnets			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linnet=Co-Agent
4	come	past · perfect	the flowers and the long days	the spring not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spring=Theme
5	set out	past · progressive	we not said here			for the north and the cold	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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