The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 40

They came in their wanderings upon a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and on the trunk among the long grass they noticed something jumping up and down, but what it was they couldn’t distinguish.

Who acts: fagots · What happens: come, fell, notice, jump up, not be, wander · To what, where: wanderings, big tree, ground, something, trunk

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fagots), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 wanderings	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wanderings	nmod:poss
5	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 felled	nsubj:pass
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 felled	aux:pass
12	felled	fell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tree	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 noticed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 noticed	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 trunk	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trunk	det
20	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noticed	obl
21	among	among	ADP	_	24 grass	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grass	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grass	amod
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trunk	nmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 noticed	nsubj
26	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 noticed	obj
28	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 something	acl
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 jumping	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 down	cc
31	down	down	ADV	_	29 up	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 what	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 what	cc
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 noticed	parataxis
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 what	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 distinguish	cop
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 distinguish	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 distinguish	aux
39	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 distinguish	advmod
40	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 what	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	fagots = fagot		fagots's wanderings	upon a big tree	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wandering=Location
2	fell	past · passive		a big tree	the ground		tree rules
3	notice	past	fagots = fagot	something	the trunk among the long grass		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4	jump up	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is	could · past	fagots = fagot			distinguish property	tree rules
6	wander		fagots = fagot				nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=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 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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