The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 9

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

Who acts: father, both, beer, tap · What happens: find, sit, run, be · To what, where: wife, stairs, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, both, 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	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sitting	nsubj
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 found	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 stairs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stairs	det
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sitting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 running	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 running	mark
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 running	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beer	det
14	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 running	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 running	aux
16	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	conj
17	all	all	ADV	_	20 ground	advmod
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 running	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 tap	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tap	det
23	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 running	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 open	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 open	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 open	cop
27	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 open	advmod
28	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tap	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	father	wife			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
2	sit	gerund	both		the stairs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location
3	run	past · progressive	the beer		the ground	beside wife; 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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