The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 80

It was easy to guess that they had come to the right place, for they saw peacocks in every tree, and their cries could be heard a long way off.

Who acts: Cockchafers · What happens: be, guess, come, see, hear, cry · To what, where: right place, peacocks, tree, cries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cockchafers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 easy	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 guess	mark
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	csubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 guess	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 saw	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	parataxis
18	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 saw	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 heard	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 cries	nmod:poss
25	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 heard	nsubj:pass
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 heard	aux:pass
28	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 saw	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 way	det
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 way	amod
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 off	obl:unmarked
32	off	off	ADV	_	28 heard	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				easy property	tree rules
2	guess	to-infinitive					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	past · perfect	Cockchafers = cockchafer		the right place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
4	see	past	Cockchafers = cockchafer	peacocks	every tree		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peacock=Stimulus
5	hear	could · passive		Cockchafers's cries		off property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
6	cry		Cockchafers = cockchafer				nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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