The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 33

They soon reached a lovely green meadow on the border of a wood, which seemed to them so pleasant after their long voyage that they sat down to rest in the shade and amused themselves by watching the gambols and antics of a pretty tiny monkey in the trees close by.

Who acts: sailors, wood, tiny monkey · What happens: reach, seem, sit down, rest, amuse, watch · To what, where: lovely green meadow, border, sailors, shade, gambols

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors, wood, tiny monkey), 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 reached	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 reached	advmod
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 meadow	det
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meadow	amod
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meadow	amod
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 border	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 border	det
10	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 border	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wood	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	obl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 pleasant	advmod
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seemed	xcomp
21	after	after	ADP	_	24 voyage	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 voyage	nmod:poss
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voyage	amod
24	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pleasant	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 sat	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sat	nsubj
27	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pleasant	advcl
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 sat	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 rest	mark
30	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sat	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 shade	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shade	det
33	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rest	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 amused	cc
35	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sat	conj
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 amused	obj
37	by	by	SCONJ	_	38 watching	mark
38	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 amused	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 gambols	det
40	gambols	gambol	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 watching	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 antics	cc
42	antics	antic	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 gambols	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	47 monkey	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 monkey	det
45	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	46 tiny	advmod
46	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 monkey	amod
47	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gambols	nmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 trees	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 trees	det
50	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 monkey	nmod
51	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 trees	amod
52	by	by	ADP	_	51 close	fixed
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	sailors = sailor	a lovely green meadow		the border of a wood	soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme
2	seem	past	a wood		sailors = sailor		pleasant property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	past	sailors = sailor				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	sailors = sailor not said here			the shade		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location
5	amuse	past	sailors = sailor not said here	sailors = sailor				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
6	watch	gerund	sailors = sailor not said here	the gambols of a tiny monkey in the trees and antics				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gambol=Theme
7	voyage		sailors = sailor					nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	gambol		a tiny monkey in the trees					nom gambol «act intransitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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