The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 6

The three old men stood in the middle of the loft, leaning on their sticks, with their long grey beards flowing down over their hands, and were talking together in low voices.

Who acts: three old men, long grey beards · What happens: stand, lean, flow down, talk · To what, where: middle, sticks, hands, low voices

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three old men, long grey beards), 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	4 men	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 loft	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loft	det
11	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaning	punct
13	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stood	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sticks	nmod:poss
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leaning	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beards	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 beards	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 beards	nmod:poss
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beards	amod
21	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beards	amod
22	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leaning	obl
23	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 beards	acl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 flowing	advmod
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 hands	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flowing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 talking	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 talking	cc
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 talking	aux
31	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stood	advcl
32	together	together	ADV	_	31 talking	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 voices	case
34	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 voices	amod
35	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 talking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the three old men	the middle of the loft		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	lean	gerund	the three old men not said here	people's sticks	with people's long grey beards	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location
3	flow down	gerund	people's long grey beards not said here	people's hands	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hand=Location
4	talk	past · progressive	the three old men not said here	low voices	together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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