The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 99

Of late it had been whispered from one to another that the three young Stalos were to be seen on the pastures, but the Sodno brothers did not disturb themselves, the danger seemed too far away.

Who acts: Sodno brothers, danger · What happens: whisper, see, not disturb, seem · To what, where: reindeer, three young Stalos, pastures

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 (Sodno brothers, danger), 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	Of	of	SCONJ	_	6 whispered	mark
2	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whispered	amod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 whispered	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 whispered	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 whispered	aux:pass
6	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 seemed	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 whispered	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 another	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 seen	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Stalos	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Stalos	nummod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Stalos	amod
15	Stalos	Stalos	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 seen	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	19 seen	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 seen	aux:pass
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 whispered	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 pastures	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pastures	det
22	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seen	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 disturb	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 disturb	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 brothers	det
26	Sodno	Sodno	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 brothers	compound
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 disturb	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 disturb	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 disturb	advmod
30	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 whispered	conj
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 disturb	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whispered	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 danger	det
34	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seemed	nsubj
35	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 far	advmod
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 away	advmod
38	away	away	ADV	_	35 seemed	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		reindeer		from one to another	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	see	past · passive		the three young Stalos	the pastures		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	not disturb	past · do-support	the Sodno brothers	pastures = pasture			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
4	seem	past	the danger			away property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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