The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 32

And as they slept there came by three fairies, who stopped to look at them.

Who acts: brothers, three fairies · What happens: sleep, come, stop, look

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, three fairies), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 slept	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 slept	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fairies	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 fairies	nummod
9	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fairies	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopped	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	brothers = brother	there		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past			by three fairies	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fairy=Location
3	stop	past	three fairies			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	look	to-infinitive	three fairies not said here		at brothers = brother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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