The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 10

He stepped to the casement to listen, and found that the sound proceeded from the sparrows, who were talking together and telling each other all they had seen in the fields and woods.

Who acts: King, sound, sparrows · What happens: step, listen, find, proceed, talk, tell · To what, where: casement, sparrows, each, all, fields · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sound, sparrows), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stepped	nsubj
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 casement	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 casement	det
5	casement	casement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepped	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 listen	mark
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stepped	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 proceeded	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sound	det
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proceeded	nsubj
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	ccomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 sparrows	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sparrows	det
17	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 proceeded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 talking	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 talking	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 talking	aux
21	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sparrows	conj
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 talking	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 telling	cc
24	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 talking	conj
25	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	24 telling	obj
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 seen	nsubj:pass
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 telling	ccomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 fields	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fields	det
33	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seen	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 woods	cc
35	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fields	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	past	King		the casement		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to casement=Destination
2	listen	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	King not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	proceed	past	the sound		the sparrows		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	talk	past · progressive	the sparrows			together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	gerund	the sparrows not said here	each			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic
7	see	past · perfect · passive		all	the fields and woods		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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