The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 72

Not long after the mother and son had held this talk, it began to be whispered in the forest that the children of an old man called Patto had vanished one by one, no one knew whither.

Who acts: talk, children, one · What happens: hold, begin, whisper, call, vanish, know · To what, where: mother, forest, old man, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (talk, children, one), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 held	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 mother	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	nsubj:pass
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 son	cc
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	conj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 held	aux
9	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 began	advcl
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 talk	det
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	17 whispered	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 whispered	aux:pass
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 began	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whispered	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 vanished	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 vanished	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 children	nmod
28	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 man	acl
29	Patto	Patto	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 called	xcomp
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 vanished	aux
31	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 whispered	advcl
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 vanished	obj
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 one	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 one	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knew	punct
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 knew	nsubj
38	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 vanished	conj
39	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	38 knew	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past · perfect · passive		the mother and son		long property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme talk=Eventuality
2	begin	past	talk				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive	talk not said here		the forest		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: in forest=Location
4	call	participle		a old man not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	vanish	past · perfect	the children of a old man	one		by one	tree rules
6	know	past	no one			whither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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