The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 103

‘I am listening to my children singing.

Who acts: I · What happens: listen, sing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 listening	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 listening	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 listening	aux
4	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 children	nmod:poss
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listening	obl
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 listening	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present · progressive	I					to my children	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to child=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	I not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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