The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 74

While the food was cooking they all stretched themselves lazily out under the tree, and were just dropping off to sleep when a big black cloud which they had never noticed spread over the sun, and heavy drops of rain began to fall, so that the fire was almost put out, and that, you know, is a very serious thing in savage countries where they have no matches, for it is very hard to light it again.

Who acts: food, fishes, big black cloud, heavy drops, you · What happens: cook, stretch, drop off, sleep, not notice, spread · To what, where: fishes, tree, big black cloud, sun, that, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, fishes, big black cloud, heavy drops), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 cooking	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cooking	aux
5	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stretched	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stretched	nsubj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 stretched	advmod
8	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 stretched	obj
10	lazily	lazily	ADV	_	11 out	advmod
11	out	out	ADV	_	8 stretched	advmod
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stretched	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dropping	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dropping	cc
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dropping	aux
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 dropping	advmod
19	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stretched	advcl
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 dropping	compound:prt
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sleep	mark
22	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dropping	advcl
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 sleep	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cloud	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cloud	amod
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cloud	amod
27	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 when	nsubj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 noticed	nsubj:pass
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 noticed	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 noticed	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 noticed	advmod
32	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 cloud	acl:relcl
33	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 noticed	xcomp
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 sun	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sun	det
36	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spread	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 began	cc
39	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 drops	amod
40	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 began	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 rain	case
42	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drops	nmod
43	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stretched	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 fall	mark
45	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 began	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 put	punct
47	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	53 put	mark
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 so	fixed
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 fire	det
50	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 put	nsubj:pass
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 put	aux:pass
52	almost	almost	ADV	_	53 put	advmod
53	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 fall	conj
54	out	out	ADP	_	53 put	compound:prt
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 that	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 that	cc
57	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 began	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 know	punct
59	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	60 know	nsubj
60	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 began	parataxis
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 thing	punct
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 thing	cop
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 thing	det
64	very	very	ADV	_	65 serious	advmod
65	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 thing	amod
66	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 know	ccomp
67	in	in	ADP	_	69 countries	case
68	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 countries	amod
69	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 thing	nmod
70	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	72 have	advmod
71	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 have	nsubj
72	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 countries	acl:relcl
73	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	74 matches	det
74	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 have	obj
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 hard	punct
76	for	for	ADP	_	80 hard	case
77	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 hard	expl
78	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	80 hard	cop
79	very	very	ADV	_	80 hard	advmod
80	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 know	conj
81	to	to	PART	_	82 light	mark
82	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	80 hard	csubj
83	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 light	obj
84	again	again	ADV	_	82 light	advmod
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past · progressive	the food					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stretch	past	fishes = fish	fishes = fish	the tree		out property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	drop off	past · progressive	fishes = fish not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive	fishes = fish not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not notice	past · perfect · passive		a big black cloud				tree rules
6	spread	participle	a big black cloud not said here		the sun			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sun=Location
7	begin	past	heavy drops of rain	that				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	fall	to-infinitive	heavy drops of rain not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	put out	past · passive		the fire			almost property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
10	know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	is a	present		a serious thing	savage countries			tree rules
12	have	present	fishes = fish	no matches				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Patient
13	is	present	you not said here				hard property	tree rules
14	light	to-infinitive		fire		again		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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