The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 79

The day was hot, and both men were thirsty, and, besides, they had much to say; and so the hours slipped by and found them still talking.

Who acts: day, men, shoes, hours · What happens: be, have, say, slip by, find, talk · To what, where: shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, men, shoes, hours), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thirsty	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thirsty	cc
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thirsty	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thirsty	cop
10	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	besides	besides	INTJ	_	17 had	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 besides	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	conj
18	much	much	ADV	_	20 say	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 slipped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slipped	cc
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 slipped	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hours	det
25	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 slipped	nsubj
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	parataxis
27	by	by	ADP	_	26 slipped	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 found	cc
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 slipped	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	obj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 talking	advmod
32	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 found	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the day			hot property	tree rules
2	is	past	both men			thirsty property	tree rules
3	have	past	shoes = shoe				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	shoes = shoe not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	slip by	past	the hours				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	find	past	the hours not said here	shoes = shoe			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
7	talk	gerund	the hours not said here		still		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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