The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 59

‘All right, then, that will do,’ said the students, as they flung themselves down on the rock, while fifty silvery-white herring were turning on the spit in front of the fire.

Who acts: that, students, fifty white herring · What happens: do, say, fling down, turn · To what, where: students, rock, spit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, students, fifty white herring), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 right	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 right	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 do	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 students	det
14	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flung	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 flung	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flung	nsubj
18	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 flung	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 flung	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 rock	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rock	det
23	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flung	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turning	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 turning	mark
26	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 herring	compound
27	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 white	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 silvery	punct
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 herring	amod
30	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turning	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 turning	aux
32	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 flung	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 spit	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 spit	det
35	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turning	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 front	case
37	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turning	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 fire	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 front	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	future	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the students			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent student=Topic
3	fling down	past	students = student	students = student	the rock		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on rock=Destination
4	turn	past · progressive	fifty white herring		the spit	in front of the fire	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on spit=Source in front=Trajectory

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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