The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 18

They were talking of where they had been waddling about all the morning, and of the good food they had found, but one of them remarked rather sadly, ‘There’s something lying very heavy on my stomach, for in my haste I’ve swallowed a ring, which was lying just under the Queen’s window.’

Who acts: bills, one, haste · What happens: talk, waddle, find, remark, lie, swallow · To what, where: heavy, I, window

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 (bills, one, haste), 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 talking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 waddling	mark
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 waddling	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 waddling	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 waddling	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 waddling	aux
9	waddling	waddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 talking	advcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 morning	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 morning	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waddling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 food	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 food	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 food	amod
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	aux
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 talking	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 remarked	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 remarked	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 remarked	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 one	nmod
28	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 found	advcl
29	rather	rather	ADV	_	30 sadly	advmod
30	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	28 remarked	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ’s	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 ’s	punct
33	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 ’s	expl
34	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 remarked	conj
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 ’s	obj
36	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 something	acl
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 heavy	advmod
38	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lying	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 stomach	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 stomach	nmod:poss
41	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heavy	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 haste	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 haste	case
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 haste	case
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 haste	nmod:poss
46	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 something	appos
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 swallowed	nsubj
48	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 swallowed	aux:pass
49	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 haste	acl:relcl
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 ring	det
51	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 swallowed	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 lying	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 lying	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 lying	aux
55	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 haste	acl
56	just	just	ADV	_	61 window	advmod
57	under	under	ADP	_	61 window	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Queen	det
59	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 window	nmod:poss
60	’s	's	PART	_	59 Queen	case
61	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lying	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talking	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	bills = bill					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	waddle	past · perfect · progressive	bills = bill			morning		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past · perfect	bills = bill				of the good food	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	remark speech: assert	participle	one of bills				sadly property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lie	gerund		heavy				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heavy=Theme
6	swallow	present · passive		I				tree rules
7	lie	past · progressive	my haste		the Queen's window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under window=Location

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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