The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 83

Many times a shining stone at the bottom of the stream was taken for the slipper itself, and every evening saw a band of dripping downcast men returning homewards.

Who acts: evening, band, downcast men · What happens: shine, take, see, drip, return · To what, where: shining stone, band, downcast men, homewards

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, band, downcast men), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 times	amod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 taken	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
4	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stone	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	nsubj:pass
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stone	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bottom	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux:pass
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 slipper	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 slipper	det
16	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obl
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	16 slipper	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 evening	det
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 band	det
24	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 dripping	mark
26	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 band	acl
27	downcast	downcast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dripping	obj
29	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 men	acl
30	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 returning	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past · passive		a shining stone at the bottom of the stream	time	for the slipper Slipper	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for slipper=Beneficiary
3	see	past	every evening	a band			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer band=Stimulus
4	drip	gerund	a band not said here	downcast men			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Source
5	return	gerund	downcast men not said here	homewards			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=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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