The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 82

The sun was setting one day, like a great scarlet globe, and the river, to the duckling's vast bewilderment, was getting hard and slippery, when he heard a sound of whirring wings, and high up in the air a flock of swans were flying.

Who acts: sun, spite, flock, duckling · What happens: set, get, hear, whir, fly, bewilder · To what, where: sound, air

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, spite, flock, duckling), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 setting	aux
4	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 globe	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 globe	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 globe	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 globe	amod
11	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 globe	compound
12	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 river	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 river	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 globe	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bewilderment	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	23 bewilderment	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 duckling	det
20	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bewilderment	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 duckling	case
22	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bewilderment	amod
23	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 getting	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 getting	aux
26	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 setting	conj
27	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 getting	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 slippery	cc
29	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hard	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 heard	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 setting	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 sound	det
35	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 wings	case
37	whirring	whir	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 wings	amod
38	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sound	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 high	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 high	cc
41	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 heard	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 high	compound:prt
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 air	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 air	det
45	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 high	obl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 flock	det
47	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 flying	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 swans	case
49	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 flock	nmod
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 flying	aux
51	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 air	acl:relcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 setting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun		day	like a great scarlet globe and the river; to the duckling's vast bewilderment	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	get	past · progressive	the sun not said here			hard property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	hear	past	spite	a sound of whirring wings			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
4	whir	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fly	past · progressive	a flock of swans	the air not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location air=Theme
6	bewilder		the duckling				nom bewilderment «cognition transitive»: poss=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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