The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 46

And when the wind moved them softly, the emperor would sit and listen to them all the day long.

Who acts: wind, emperor · What happens: move, sit, listen · To what, where: aspens

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, emperor), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 sit	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 moved	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moved	nsubj
5	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 moved	obj
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 moved	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moved	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	aux
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sit	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 listen	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 listen	obl:unmarked
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 listen	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	the wind	aspens = aspen			softly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	sit	would	the emperor					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	infinitive	the emperor not said here		aspens = aspen	day	long property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=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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