The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 47

The villagers were quiet, hard-working folk, who toiled in the fields all day, and in the evening set out for home when the bell began to ring in the little church.

Who acts: villagers, folk, bell · What happens: be, work, toil, set out, begin, ring · To what, where: folk, fields, little church

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villagers, folk, bell), 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 villagers	det
2	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quiet	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 working	punct
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 working	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hard	punct
8	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 quiet	parataxis
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 working	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 toiled	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 toiled	nsubj
12	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 folk	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 fields	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fields	det
15	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 toiled	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toiled	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 set	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 evening	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obl
23	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 quiet	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 set	compound:prt
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 home	case
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 began	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bell	det
29	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 set	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 ring	mark
32	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 church	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 church	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 church	amod
36	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ring	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the villagers				quiet property	tree rules
2	work	gerund		folk				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent folk=Material
3	toil	past	folk		the fields	day		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Trajectory
4	set out	participle	the villagers not said here			evening	for home	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	the bell					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	ring	to-infinitive	the bell not said here		the little church			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in church=Location

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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