The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 45

Thus when the three brothers, each armed with a whip, entered the hut a few seconds later, they found a woman extended on the floor, and Toueno kneeling at her side, whistling loudly into her ears.

Who acts: three brothers, brothers, Toueno · What happens: enter, find, extend, kneel, whistle · To what, where: hut, woman, floor, side, ears

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three brothers, brothers, Toueno), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	13 entered	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 entered	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 entered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 armed	punct
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 armed	det
8	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brothers	amod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 whip	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 whip	det
11	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 armed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brothers	punct
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 seconds	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seconds	amod
18	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 entered	obl:unmarked
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 entered	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 entered	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
25	extended	extend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 woman	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 floor	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 floor	det
28	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 extended	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kneeling	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 kneeling	cc
31	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 kneeling	nsubj
32	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 found	advcl
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 side	nmod:poss
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kneeling	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 whistling	punct
37	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 kneeling	conj
38	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	37 whistling	advmod
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 ears	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 ears	nmod:poss
41	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 whistling	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the three brothers	the hut		second	late, thus property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
2	find	past	brothers = brother	a woman				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
3	extend	participle		a woman not said here	the floor			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
4	kneel	gerund	Toueno		woman's side			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location
5	whistle	gerund	Toueno not said here		woman's ears		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into ear=Recipient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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