The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 34

Children in the garden, children in the yard, children looking out of every window--it seemed to the man as if all the children in the world must be gathered there.

Who acts: children · What happens: look out, seem, gather · To what, where: window, children

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seemed	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 garden	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Children	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 children	punct
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Children	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 yard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yard	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 children	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 children	punct
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Children	conj
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 children	acl
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 window	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 window	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 man	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seemed	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 gathered	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 gathered	mark
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 children	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 children	det
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gathered	nsubj:pass
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 children	nmod
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 gathered	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 gathered	aux:pass
33	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 seemed	xcomp
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 gathered	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look out	gerund	children not said here	every window			tree rules
2	seem	past	Children in the garden and children in the yard and children			to the man	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	gather a condition, not said to happen	must · passive		all children in the world	there		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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