The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 217

The sun was setting when they reached the top, and glad they were to take out the fruit and the cakes and the water which they had hidden away, and sit down and rest themselves.

Who acts: sun, legs · What happens: set, reach, take out, hide away, sit down, rest · To what, where: top, fruit, legs

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, legs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 setting	aux
4	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 setting	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glad	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 glad	cc
12	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 setting	parataxis
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 glad	parataxis
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 take	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fruit	det
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cakes	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cakes	det
22	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fruit	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 water	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fruit	conj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 hidden	nsubj:pass
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hidden	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hidden	aux
29	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fruit	acl:relcl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 hidden	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sit	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sit	cc
33	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 sit	compound:prt
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rest	cc
36	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sit	conj
37	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 rest	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 setting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	reach	past	legs = leg	the top		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme
3	take out	past	legs = leg	the fruit and the cakes and the water		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
4	hide away	past · perfect · passive		the fruit and the cakes and the water	away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	sit down	infinitive	legs = leg not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest	infinitive	legs = leg not said here	legs = leg		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=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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