The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 6

Next day both mother and daughter were sitting in a jessamine bower in the garden, and they began to talk of the green monkey and his strange ways.

Who acts: Next day, ladies · What happens: sit, begin, talk · To what, where: jessamine bower

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Next day, ladies), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	nsubj
3	both	both	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc:preconj
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 daughter	cc
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 bower	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bower	det
11	jessamine	jessamine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bower	compound
12	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garden	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bower	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 talk	mark
21	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 monkey	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 monkey	det
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 monkey	amod
25	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 talk	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ways	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ways	nmod:poss
28	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ways	amod
29	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 monkey	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Next day mother and daughter	a jessamine bower in the garden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bower=Location
2	begin	past	ladies = lady			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	talk	to-infinitive	ladies = lady not said here		of the green monkey and monkey's strange ways	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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