The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 66

They could hear him calling the nuns around him, and saw them settle themselves under a tree, with the hermit in their midst--all but one, who remained on guard, as was the custom.

Who acts: nuns, hermit · What happens: hear, call, see, settle, remain, be · To what, where: hermit, nuns, tree, guard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuns, hermit), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obj
5	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hear	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nuns	det
7	nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 calling	obj
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 settle	nsubj
14	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	xcomp
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 settle	obj
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 settle	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hermit	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 hermit	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hermit	det
22	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 settle	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 midst	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 midst	nmod:poss
25	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hermit	nmod
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 all	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 hermit	conj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 one	cc
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 all	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remained	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 remained	nsubj
32	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hermit	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 guard	case
34	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remained	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 custom	punct
36	as	as	ADP	_	39 custom	case
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 custom	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 custom	det
39	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	could	nuns = nun	hermit				tree rules
2	call	gerund	hermit not said here		the nuns		around hermit	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nun=Recipient
3	see	past						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	settle	infinitive	nuns = nun	nuns = nun		a tree	with the hermit in nuns's midst	vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme with hermit=Location
5	remain	past	the hermit in nuns's midst			guard		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on guard=Location
6	is	past					as the custom	tree rules

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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