The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 6

One summer day, when the rays of the sun were pouring down on the earth, the three sisters went to the wood on the outskirts of the mountain to pick strawberries.

Who acts: rays, three sisters · What happens: pour down, go, pick, ray · To what, where: earth, outskirts, strawberries, sun

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 (rays, three sisters), 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	3 day	nummod
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	compound
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pouring	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pouring	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rays	det
7	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pouring	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rays	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pouring	aux
12	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 pouring	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pouring	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sisters	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 sisters	nummod
20	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pouring	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 wood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wood	det
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 outskirts	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 outskirts	det
27	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountain	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 outskirts	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pick	mark
32	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	advcl
33	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pick	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pouring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour down	past · progressive	the rays of the sun		the earth	day	down property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	go	past	the three sisters		the outskirts of the mountain		to the wood	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
3	pick	to-infinitive	the three sisters not said here	strawberries				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Patient
4	ray			the sun				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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