The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 57

'The whole of this day I have listened to those village hens clucking till I could bear it no longer,' murmured she as she bounded along, hardly seeming to touch the ground. '

Who acts: I, village hens, folk · What happens: listen, cluck, bear, murmur, bound, seem · To what, where: day, mind, folk, ground

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 (I, village hens, folk), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 whole	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whole	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whole	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 listened	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 listened	aux
9	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 day	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 hens	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 hens	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hens	compound
13	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 listened	obl
14	clucking	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hens	acl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 bear	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bear	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bear	aux
18	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 clucking	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bear	obj
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 longer	advmod
21	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 bear	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 murmured	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 murmured	punct
24	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whole	conj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 murmured	obj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 bounded	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bounded	nsubj
28	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 murmured	advcl
29	along	along	ADV	_	28 bounded	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seeming	punct
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	32 seeming	advmod
32	seeming	seem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 bounded	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 touch	mark
34	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 seeming	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 touch	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whole	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 whole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	present · perfect	I	this day not said here	to that village hens	tree rules
2	cluck	gerund	that village hens not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bear	could	I	mind	long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	murmur speech: other	past		folk		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	bound	past	folk		along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seem	gerund	folk not said here		hardly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	touch	to-infinitive	folk not said here	the ground		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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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