The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 11
And when they had settled themselves comfortably, the city swallow began:
Who acts: city swallow · What happens: settle, begin · To what, where: sons
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city swallow), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 settled | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 settled | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 settled | aux |
| 5 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 began | advcl |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 settled | obj |
| 7 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 5 settled | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swallow | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swallow | compound |
| 11 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past · perfect · passive | sons = son | comfortably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the city swallow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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