The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 205

Naturally they began to talk about the bronze ring.

Who acts: mice · What happens: begin, talk

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice), 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	Naturally	naturally	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 ring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
8	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ring	amod
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	mice = mouse					naturally property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	talk	to-infinitive	mice = mouse not said here					about the bronze ring	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ring=Topic

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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