The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 37

Flinging himself on his knees, the old man began filling the wallets he had brought, listening intently all the time for the return of the stones up the hill, while Bernez more slowly put handfuls of all he could see into his pockets.

Who acts: old man, procession, stones · What happens: fling, begin, fill, bring, listen, put · To what, where: procession, knees, wallets, Bernez, pockets

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, procession, stones), 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	Flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 began	advcl
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Flinging	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knees	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flinging	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Flinging	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	filling	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 began	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wallets	det
13	wallets	wallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 filling	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	aux
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 wallets	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 listening	punct
18	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 filling	conj
19	intently	intently	ADV	_	18 listening	advmod
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 time	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 listening	obl:unmarked
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 return	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 return	det
25	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 listening	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 stones	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stones	det
28	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 return	nmod
29	up	up	ADP	_	31 hill	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hill	det
31	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stones	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 put	mark
34	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 put	nsubj:pass
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 put	advmod
36	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	37 put	advmod
37	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 began	conj
38	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 put	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 all	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 handfuls	nmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 see	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 see	aux
43	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 put	advcl
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 pockets	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 pockets	nmod:poss
46	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 see	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	gerund	the old man not said here	procession	procession's knees			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on knee=Destination
2	begin	past	the old man					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fill	gerund	the old man not said here	the wallets				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wallet=Patient
4	bring	past · perfect	procession	the wallets not said here				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wallet=Theme
5	listen	gerund	the old man not said here			time	for the return of the stones up the hill; intently property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for return=Theme
6	put	participle · passive		Bernez			slowly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset handful=Goal
7	see	could	procession		procession's pockets			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	return		the stones up the hill					nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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