The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 40

Darker and darker it grew, and the small birds were seeking their nests, and at length Ian Direach could see no more, and he lay down under some bushes and sleep came to him.

Who acts: Darker, small birds, bird, sleep · What happens: grow, seek, see, lie down, come · To what, where: nests, more, length, bushes, bird

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 (Darker, small birds, bird, sleep), 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	Darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 darker	cc
3	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Darker	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seeking	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seeking	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birds	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 birds	amod
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seeking	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seeking	aux
12	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 grew	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nests	nmod:poss
14	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seeking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl
19	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 length	appos
20	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Ian	flat
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seeking	conj
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	parataxis
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 lay	compound:prt
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 bushes	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 bushes	det
32	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lay	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 came	cc
34	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lay	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	grow	past	Darker				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seek	past · progressive	the small birds	rivers's nests			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
3	see	could	the small birds not said here	more		length	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
4	lie down	past	bird			some bushes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location
5	come	past	sleep		bird		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_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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