The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 130

Even the fairies who had been bathing a little lower down heard the music and fell asleep among the flowers on the bank.

Who acts: fairies · What happens: bath, hear, fall · To what, where: music, flowers

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 fairies	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairies	det
3	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bathing	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 bathing	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bathing	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bathing	aux
7	bathing	bath	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lower	obl:unmarked
10	lower	low	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 heard	advmod
11	down	down	ADV	_	12 heard	advmod
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bathing	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 music	det
14	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fell	xcomp
18	among	among	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fell	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 bank	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bank	det
23	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flowers	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bathing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bath	past · perfect · progressive	the fairies				tree rules
2	hear	past		the music		down, low property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
3	fall	past			the flowers on the bank	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among flower=Location

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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