The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 8

One day all the three were sitting resting under a tree, for the sun was hot and they were tired of walking.

Who acts: three, sun, brothers · What happens: sit, rest, be · To what, where: tree

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, sun, brothers), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 three	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 three	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sitting	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	advcl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 resting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hot	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 hot	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hot	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hot	cop
17	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sitting	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tired	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tired	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hot	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 walking	case
23	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tired	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	all three		day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	gerund	all three not said here	a tree			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location
3	is	past	the sun			hot property	tree rules
4	is	past	brothers = brother			of walking; tired 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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