The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 16

He found them all three sitting on the stairs, while beside them the beer was running all over the ground from the tap, which was wide open.

Who acts: lover, names, beer, tap · What happens: find, sit, run, be · To what, where: names, stairs, ground

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, names, beer, tap), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 three	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 found	obj
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 found	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stairs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stairs	det
9	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 running	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 running	mark
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 running	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beer	det
15	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 running	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 running	aux
17	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	conj
18	all	all	ADV	_	21 ground	advmod
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 running	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 tap	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tap	det
24	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 running	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 open	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 open	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 open	cop
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 open	advmod
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tap	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	lover	names = name			tree rules
2	sit	gerund	names = name not said here		the stairs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location
3	run	past · progressive	the beer		the ground	beside names = name; from the tap	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory
4	is	past	the tap			open property	tree rules

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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