The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 8

The fair maiden was the daughter of the king of the country, and she often wandered in the forest with her play fellows gathering the wild flowers and fruits, till the midday heat drove the merry band to the shady lawn by the brook to rest, or to bathe in the cool waters.

Who acts: fair maiden, raven, play fellows, midday heat · What happens: be, wander, gather, drive, rest, bathe · To what, where: daughter, forest, wild flowers, merry band, shady lawn

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden, raven, play fellows, midday heat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maiden	amod
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daughter	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daughter	det
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 country	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 king	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wandered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wandered	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wandered	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 wandered	advmod
17	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daughter	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wandered	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 fellows	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fellows	nmod:poss
23	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fellows	compound
24	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wandered	obl
25	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 fellows	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flowers	det
27	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flowers	compound
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gathering	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fruits	cc
30	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 flowers	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 drove	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 drove	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 heat	det
34	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heat	compound
35	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drove	nsubj
36	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wandered	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 band	det
38	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 band	amod
39	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drove	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 lawn	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 lawn	det
42	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 lawn	amod
43	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drove	obl
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 brook	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 brook	det
46	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drove	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 rest	mark
48	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 drove	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bathe	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 bathe	cc
51	to	to	PART	_	52 bathe	mark
52	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 rest	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 waters	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 waters	det
55	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 waters	amod
56	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 bathe	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 daughter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the fair maiden	the daughter		of the king of the country	tree rules
2	wander	past	raven		the forest	with raven's play fellows; often property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory
3	gather	gerund	raven's play fellows not said here	the wild flowers and fruits			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
4	drive	past	the midday heat	the merry band	the shady lawn	by the brook	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent band=Theme to lawn=Destination by brook=Initial_Location
5	rest	to-infinitive	the midday heat not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bathe	to-infinitive	the midday heat not said here			in the cool waters	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in water=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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