The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 24

Besides, he knew how to sail about, and sing songs to the harp, and during the winter evenings, when everyone was gathered round the huge hall fire shaping bows or weaving cloth, Ian Direach would tell them tales of the deeds of his fathers.

Who acts: boy, huge hall fire, Ian, deeds · What happens: know, sail, sing, gather, shape, weave · To what, where: songs, harp, everyone, bows, cloth, tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, huge hall fire, Ian, deeds), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sail	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sail	mark
7	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	xcomp
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 sail	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sing	cc
11	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
12	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sing	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 harp	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 harp	det
15	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tell	cc
18	during	during	ADP	_	21 evenings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 evenings	det
20	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 evenings	compound
21	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gathered	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 gathered	advmod
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 gathered	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gathered	aux:pass
26	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 evenings	conj
27	round	round	ADP	_	31 fire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fire	det
29	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fire	amod
30	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fire	compound
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gathered	obl
32	shaping	shape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 fire	acl
33	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 shaping	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 weaving	cc
35	weaving	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 shaping	conj
36	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 weaving	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 evenings	punct
38	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 tell	nsubj
39	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Ian	flat
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 tell	aux
41	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sing	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 tell	iobj
43	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tell	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 deeds	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 deeds	det
46	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 tales	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 fathers	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 fathers	nmod:poss
49	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 deeds	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	boy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sail	to-infinitive	boy not said here				about property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	present		songs	the harp			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to harp=Recipient
4	gather	past · passive		everyone			round the huge hall fire	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	shape	gerund	the huge hall fire not said here	bows				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product
6	weave	gerund	the huge hall fire not said here	cloth				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Product
7	tell speech: assert	would	Ian	tales of the deeds of boy's fathers	bows = bow	evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic
8	tell		the deeds of boy's fathers					nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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