The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 100

The old men were sitting in front, the children were playing, and the women chattering together, when the little Bunyip fell into their midst, and there was scarcely a child among them who did not know that something terrible was upon them.

Who acts: old men, children, women, little Bunyip, sitting, child · What happens: sit, play, chatter, fall, be, not know · To what, where: front, midst, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old men, children, women, little Bunyip), 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 men	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 child	csubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 playing	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 playing	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 playing	aux
12	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chattering	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 chattering	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 women	det
16	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chattering	nsubj
17	chattering	chatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	advcl
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 chattering	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 fell	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Bunyip	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Bunyip	amod
23	Bunyip	Bunyip	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chattering	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 midst	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 midst	nmod:poss
27	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 was	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 was	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 child	cop
32	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	31 was	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 child	det
34	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
35	among	among	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 child	nmod
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 know	nsubj
38	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 know	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 know	advmod
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 child	acl:relcl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 them	mark
42	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 them	nsubj
43	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 something	amod
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 them	cop
45	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 know	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the old men		front		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
2	play	past · progressive	the children				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chatter	gerund	the women			together property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	the little Bunyip			into tops's midst result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into midst=Result
5	is a	past	sitting	a child		among tops = top	tree rules
6	not know	past · do-support	a child				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	something			upon tops = top	tree rules

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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