The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 85

They were passing along some fields where the corn was ripening, when a rabbit suddenly sprang out at their feet, and standing on its hind legs, it sang:

Who acts: trees, corn, rabbit · What happens: pass, ripen, spring out, stand, sing · To what, where: fields, feet, hind legs

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 (trees, corn, rabbit), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passing	aux
3	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sang	advcl
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 fields	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fields	det
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passing	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 ripening	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corn	det
9	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ripening	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ripening	aux
11	ripening	ripen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 passing	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sprang	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 sprang	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rabbit	det
15	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sprang	nsubj
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 sprang	advmod
17	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ripening	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 sprang	compound:prt
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 feet	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sprang	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 standing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 standing	cc
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 passing	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 legs	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legs	nmod:poss
27	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legs	amod
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 standing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passing	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sang	nsubj
31	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	trees = tree	some fields		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along field=Location
2	ripen	past · progressive	the corn			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	spring out	past	a rabbit	trees's feet	suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory
4	stand	gerund	trees = tree not said here	rabbit's hind legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
5	sing speech: express	past	corn			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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