The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 47

For a long while he watched in vain; everything seemed asleep, and not even a bird stirred overhead.

Who acts: Contes, everything · What happens: watch, seem, stir · To what, where: vain, bird

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 (Contes, everything), 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	_	3 long	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 long	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 watched	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 watched	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watched	nsubj
6	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 vain	case
8	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 watched	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watched	conj
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seemed	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bird	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bird	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 bird	advmod
16	even	even	ADV	_	18 bird	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bird	det
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	xcomp
19	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bird	acl
20	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	19 stirred	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past	Contes		vain	for a long	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for long=Theme in vain=Location
2	seem	past	everything	a bird		asleep property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	stir	participle		a bird not said here		overhead property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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