The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 10

One day Jem and his mother sat as usual in the Market Place with plenty of nice herbs and vegetables spread out on the board, and in some smaller baskets early pears, apples, and apricots.

Who acts: Jem · What happens: sit, spread out · To what, where: smaller baskets, Market Place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jem), 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	7 sat	obl:unmarked
3	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mother	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Jem	conj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 usual	case
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sat	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 Place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Place	det
12	Market	Market	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Place	compound
13	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spread	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 plenty	case
15	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Place	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 herbs	case
17	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 herbs	amod
18	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 plenty	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 vegetables	cc
20	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 herbs	conj
21	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 spread	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 board	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 board	det
25	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spread	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 baskets	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 baskets	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 baskets	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 baskets	det
30	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 baskets	amod
31	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sat	obl
32	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 pears	amod
33	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 baskets	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 apples	punct
35	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pears	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 apricots	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 apricots	cc
38	apricots	apricot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 baskets	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Jem and boy's mother			some smaller baskets and early pears and apples and apricots	day	as usual	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basket=Location
2	spread out	present				the Market Place with plenty of nice herbs and vegetables		on the board	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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