The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 17

All round were more than a hundred wood-pigeons which seemed to be asleep, but they moved a little when the two girls came up.

Who acts: hundred wood pigeons, pigeons, two girls · What happens: be, seem, move, come up · To what, where: little

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred wood pigeons, pigeons, two girls), 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	All	all	ADV	_	2 round	advmod
2	round	round	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 more	cop
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	10 pigeons	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pigeons	nummod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pigeons	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 wood	punct
10	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 more	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pigeons	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 asleep	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 asleep	cop
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 moved	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 moved	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moved	nsubj
19	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 more	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 moved	obj
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girls	det
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 girls	nummod
25	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moved	advcl
27	up	up	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			than hundred wood pigeons; more, round property	tree rules
2	seem	past	hundred wood pigeons			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	hundred wood pigeons not said here		asleep property	tree rules
4	move	past	pigeons = pigeon	a little		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent little=Theme
5	come up	past	the two girls			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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