The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 14

One day her parents sat by the fire, talking over the extraordinary behaviour of their daughter, who was disporting herself in the snowstorm that raged outside.

Who acts: parents, daughter, snowstorm · What happens: sit, talk, disport, rage · To what, where: extraordinary behaviour, woman, snowstorm

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, daughter, snowstorm), 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	5 sat	obl:unmarked
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parents	nmod:poss
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talking	punct
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sat	advcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 behaviour	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 behaviour	det
13	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 behaviour	amod
14	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talking	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 daughter	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 behaviour	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 disporting	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 disporting	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 disporting	aux
21	disporting	disport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 daughter	acl
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 disporting	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 snowstorm	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 snowstorm	det
25	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disporting	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 raged	nsubj
27	raged	rage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 snowstorm	acl:relcl
28	outside	outside	ADV	_	27 raged	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	woman's parents			day	by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	talk	gerund	woman's parents not said here		the extraordinary behaviour of parents's daughter			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	disport	past · progressive	parents's daughter	woman	the snowstorm			tree rules
4	rage	past	the snowstorm				outside property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «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 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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