The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 10

They forgot that they were thirsty, and that the sun was hot; and the ground seemed to fly under their feet, till the donkey stopped of its own accord in the cool shadow.

Who acts: words, sun, ground, donkey · What happens: forget, be, seem, fly, stop · To what, where: feet, cool shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, sun, ground, donkey), 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	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 thirsty	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thirsty	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thirsty	cop
6	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 forgot	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hot	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hot	cc
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 hot	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hot	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hot	cop
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thirsty	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fly	mark
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seemed	xcomp
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fly	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stopped	punct
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 stopped	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 donkey	det
27	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stopped	nsubj
28	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seemed	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 accord	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 accord	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 accord	amod
32	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stopped	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 shadow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shadow	det
35	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 shadow	amod
36	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stopped	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	forget	past	words = word			tree rules
2	is	past	words = word		thirsty property	tree rules
3	is	past	the sun		hot property	tree rules
4	seem	past	the ground			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	fly	to-infinitive	the ground not said here	words's feet		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location
6	stop	past	the donkey	the cool shadow	of donkey's own accord	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=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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