The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 75

With the first rays of the sun he set forth, and travelled through deserts and over mountains and across rivers, and all befell him which had befallen Kynon, till he stood under the leafless tree listening to the song of the birds.

Who acts: sun, leafless tree, birds · What happens: set, travel, befall, stand, listen, sing · To what, where: deserts, sun, Kynon, leafless tree

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, leafless tree, 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 rays	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rays	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 rays	amod
4	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 set	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	nsubj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	forth	forth	ADV	_	9 set	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 travelled	cc
13	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 deserts	case
15	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 travelled	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mountains	cc
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 mountains	case
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deserts	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rivers	cc
20	across	across	ADP	_	21 rivers	case
21	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deserts	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 befell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 befell	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 befell	advmod
25	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 befell	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 befallen	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 befallen	aux
29	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 befell	conj
30	Kynon	Kynon	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 befallen	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 stood	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stood	nsubj
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 befell	conj
35	under	under	ADP	_	38 tree	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tree	det
37	leafless	leafless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tree	amod
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
39	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 tree	acl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 song	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 song	det
42	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 listening	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 birds	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 birds	det
45	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 song	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	sun			with the first rays; of the sun; forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ray=Instrument
2	travel	past	sun not said here		deserts and mountains and rivers		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through desert=Trajectory
3	befall	past		sun			tree rules
4	befall	past · perfect · passive		Kynon			tree rules
5	stand	past	sun		the leafless tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
6	listen	gerund	the leafless tree not said here			to the song of the birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme
7	sing		the birds				nom song «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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