The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 26

It happened one evening, when he was hot and tired with walking, and had sat down under a tree in a forest to eat his supper, that he saw two gaily-plumaged birds, that were strange to him, sitting at the top of the tree talking to one another about him.

Who acts: It, Solomon, that · What happens: happen, be, sit down, eat, see, plumage · To what, where: tree, supper, two plumaged birds, Solomon, top, one

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Solomon, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 evening	nummod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hot	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hot	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hot	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hot	cop
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happened	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tired	cc
11	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hot	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 walking	case
13	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hot	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	aux
17	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 happened	parataxis
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 forest	acl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 supper	nmod:poss
28	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saw	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 saw	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saw	nsubj
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	conj
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 birds	nummod
34	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 plumaged	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 gaily	punct
36	plumaged	plumage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 birds	amod
37	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 saw	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 strange	punct
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 strange	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 strange	cop
41	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 birds	amod
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 strange	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sitting	punct
45	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 saw	conj
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 top	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 top	det
48	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sitting	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 tree	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 tree	det
51	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 top	nmod
52	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 sitting	conj
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 one	case
54	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 talking	obl
55	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	54 one	fixed
56	about	about	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 one	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				evening		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Solomon					with walking; hot property	tree rules
3	be		Solomon not said here						tree rules
4	sit down	past · perfect				a tree		in a forest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
5	eat	to-infinitive		Solomon's supper					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
6	see	past	Solomon	two plumaged birds					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
7	plumage	participle							tree rules
8	is	past	that		Solomon			strange property	tree rules
9	sit	gerund	Solomon not said here			the top of the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location
10	talk	gerund	Solomon not said here		one about Solomon				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-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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