The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 64

'Well, I was tired of stooping for the sticks, and was leaning against a tree to rest, when I heard a noise of 'sh-'sh, among the dead leaves.

Who acts: I, sh · What happens: be, stoop, lean, rest, hear, noise · To what, where: tree, noise

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sh), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 tired	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 stooping	mark
8	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tired	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 sticks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sticks	det
11	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stooping	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leaning	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 leaning	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 leaning	aux
15	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stooping	conj
16	against	against	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaning	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 rest	mark
20	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 leaning	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 heard	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 noise	det
26	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	32 sh	case
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 sh	punct
29	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sh	nsubj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 sh	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 sh	punct
32	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noise	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 leaves	punct
34	among	among	ADP	_	37 leaves	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 leaves	det
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 leaves	amod
37	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heard	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			tired property	tree rules
2	stoop	gerund	I not said here			for the sticks	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lean	past · progressive	I not said here		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against tree=Location
4	rest	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past	I	a noise of sh		among the dead leaves	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
6	noise		sh				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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