The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 41

Down in the south, where the sun shines so hotly that everything and everybody sleeps all day, and even the great forests seem silent, except early in the morning and late in the evening—down in this country there once lived a young man and a maiden.

Who acts: sun, everything, great forests, country · What happens: shine, sleep, seem, live · To what, where: young man

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, everything, great forests, country), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	39 down	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 south	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 south	det
4	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Down	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shines	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 shines	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shines	nsubj
9	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 south	acl:relcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 hotly	advmod
11	hotly	hotly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shines	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 sleeps	mark
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 sleeps	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 everybody	cc
15	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 everything	conj
16	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hotly	advcl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sleeps	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seem	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seem	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 forests	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forests	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 forests	amod
24	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 seem	nsubj
25	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sleeps	conj
26	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seem	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 morning	punct
28	except	except	ADP	_	32 morning	case
29	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 morning	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 morning	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 morning	det
32	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seem	obl:unmarked
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 late	cc
34	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 morning	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 evening	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 evening	det
37	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 late	obl
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	1 Down	punct
39	down	down	ADV	_	42 country	advmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 country	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 country	det
42	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lived	nsubj
43	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 country	advmod
44	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	45 lived	advmod
45	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 man	det
47	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 man	amod
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lived	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 maiden	cc
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 maiden	det
51	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 man	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	the sun			hotly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	present	everything		day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	present	the great forests		morning	silent property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	live	past	this country	a young man and a maiden		once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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