The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 36

Early in the morning and late in the evenings the parents worked hard in the fields, resting, when the sun was high, under the shade of some tree.

Who acts: sun · What happens: work, rest, be, shade · To what, where: tree

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 morning	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worked	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 late	cc
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 evenings	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evenings	det
9	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 late	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parents	det
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 evenings	nmod
12	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 worked	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fields	det
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 worked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 resting	punct
18	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 worked	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 high	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 high	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 high	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 high	cop
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 resting	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shade	punct
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 shade	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shade	det
28	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 high	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tree	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 tree	det
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shade	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	past			morning	in the fields; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme
2	rest	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the sun			high property	tree rules
4	shade			some tree			nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

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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