The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 149

Then they were so tired that they sat down on a stone and began to cry.

Who acts: birds · What happens: be, sit down, begin, cry · To what, where: stone

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tired	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sat	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cry	mark
16	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	birds = bird		then	tired property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	birds = bird	a stone			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
3	begin	past	birds = bird not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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