The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 164

But when the spring began, and the light grew longer, the hearts of the villagers leapt at the sight of the sun, and a day was fixed for the boats to be brought out, and the great nets to be spread in the bays of some islands that lay a few miles to the north.

Who acts: spring, light, hearts, islands · What happens: begin, grow, leapt, fix, bring out, spread · To what, where: sight, day, great nets, bays, few miles, sun

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring, light, hearts, islands), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spring	det
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 grew	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leapt	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hearts	det
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 leapt	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 villagers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 villagers	det
17	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hearts	nmod
18	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 sight	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sight	det
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leapt	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sun	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sight	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fixed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fixed	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fixed	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fixed	aux:pass
30	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 leapt	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 boats	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boats	det
33	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fixed	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	36 brought	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 brought	aux:pass
36	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 fixed	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 brought	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 spread	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 spread	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 nets	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 nets	amod
42	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 spread	nsubj:pass
43	to	to	PART	_	45 spread	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 spread	aux:pass
45	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 grew	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 bays	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 bays	det
48	bays	bay	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 spread	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 islands	case
50	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	51 islands	det
51	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 bays	nmod
52	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 lay	nsubj
53	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 islands	acl:relcl
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 miles	det
55	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 miles	amod
56	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 lay	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 north	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 north	det
59	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lay	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the spring				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	grow	past	the light			long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leapt	present	the hearts of the villagers		the sight of the sun		tree rules
4	fix	past · passive		a day		for the boats	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for boat=Beneficiary
5	bring out	to-infinitive · passive					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»
6	spread	to-infinitive · passive		the great nets	the bays of some islands		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bay=Destination
7	lay	present	some islands	a few miles		to the north	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Result
8	sight			the sun			nom sight «cognition 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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