The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 45

Then the swallow flew away, and the children, who had forgotten both hunger and weariness in the joy of this strange news, rose up and followed in the direction of her flight.

Who acts: swallow, children · What happens: fly away, forget, rise up, follow, joy · To what, where: hunger, joy, direction, strange news

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 (swallow, children), 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	4 flew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallow	det
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rose	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rose	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgotten	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 forgotten	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgotten	aux
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 children	acl:relcl
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hunger	det
15	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 weariness	cc
17	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunger	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 joy	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 joy	det
20	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 news	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 news	det
23	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 news	amod
24	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 joy	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 children	punct
26	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 rose	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 followed	cc
29	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 rose	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 direction	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 direction	det
32	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 followed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 flight	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 flight	nmod:poss
35	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 direction	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	the swallow			then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget	past · perfect	the children	both hunger and weariness	the joy of this strange news			tree rules
3	rise up	past	the children					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	follow	participle	the children not said here		the direction of swallow's flight			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
5	joy			this strange news				nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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