The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 21

The children had been lying on the bench, listening lazily to the chatter up to this point; but when they heard the story of the crystal cradle which their foster-mother had always been fond of telling them, they sat upright and looked at each other.

Who acts: children, crystal cradle · What happens: lie, listen, chatter up, hear, be, tell · To what, where: bench, story, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, crystal cradle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lying	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bench	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bench	det
8	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 listening	punct
10	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lying	conj
11	lazily	lazily	ADV	_	10 listening	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	18 point	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 point	det
14	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 point	amod
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 chatter	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 point	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 point	det
18	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 listening	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 heard	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 heard	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 story	det
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 cradle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cradle	det
28	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cradle	amod
29	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 story	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 fond	nsubj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
32	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mother	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 foster	punct
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fond	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fond	aux
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 fond	advmod
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 fond	cop
38	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cradle	acl:relcl
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 telling	mark
40	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 fond	advcl
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 telling	iobj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sat	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sat	nsubj
44	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	parataxis
45	upright	upright	ADV	_	44 sat	advmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 looked	cc
47	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 sat	conj
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 each	case
49	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	47 looked	obl
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 each	fixed
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · perfect · progressive	the children			the bench		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	listen	gerund	the children not said here				to the chatter point; lazily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to point=Theme
3	chatter up	infinitive						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	children = child	the story of the crystal cradle				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
5	is	past · perfect	the crystal cradle				always, fond property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	gerund	the crystal cradle not said here		children = child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
7	sit	past	children = child				upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	look	past	children = child not said here				at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=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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