The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 35

For half an hour they stood with their eyes rooted to the spot, but the hole remained as full as at the beginning, with the little green leaf floating on the top.

Who acts: work, hole, little green leaf · What happens: stand, root, remain, float · To what, where: eyes, top

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 (work, hole, little green leaf), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 hour	case
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 hour	det:predet
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	obl
10	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 eyes	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 spot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spot	det
13	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rooted	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remained	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 remained	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hole	det
17	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remained	nsubj
18	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 full	advmod
20	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 remained	xcomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 beginning	case
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 beginning	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beginning	det
24	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 full	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leaf	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 leaf	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 leaf	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leaf	amod
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leaf	amod
30	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remained	obl
31	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 leaf	acl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 top	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 top	det
34	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 floating	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	work			hour	with work's eyes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	root	participle		work's eyes not said here			to the spot	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	remain	past	the hole				with the little green leaf; full property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	float	gerund	the little green leaf not said here		the top			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory

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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