The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 20

But one morning in the spring, long before the sun rose, they were hastening towards it from opposite directions, when, tempted by the beauty of the myriads of gay flowers which grew thickly on all sides, they paused each to gather some for the other.

Who acts: sun, rays, gay flowers · What happens: rise, hasten, tempt, grow, pause, gather · To what, where: opposite directions, sides, each, some

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, rays, gay flowers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 rose	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 morning	nummod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 spring	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 rose	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 rose	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hastening	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hastening	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hastening	aux
16	hastening	hasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rose	advcl
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hastening	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 directions	case
20	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 directions	amod
21	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hastening	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tempted	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 tempted	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tempted	punct
25	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rose	parataxis
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 beauty	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beauty	det
28	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tempted	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 myriads	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 myriads	det
31	myriads	myriad	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 beauty	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 flowers	case
33	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flowers	compound
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 myriads	nmod
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 grew	nsubj
36	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 flowers	acl:relcl
37	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grew	xcomp
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 sides	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 sides	det
40	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 grew	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 paused	punct
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 paused	nsubj
43	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tempted	conj
44	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	43 paused	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 gather	mark
46	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 paused	advcl
47	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 gather	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 other	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 other	det
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 gather	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the sun			morning	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hasten	past · progressive	rays = ray		opposite directions		towards sun	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination
3	tempt	participle					by the beauty of the myriads of gay flowers	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	grow	past	gay flowers		all sides		thickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
5	pause	past	rays = ray	each				tree rules
6	gather	to-infinitive	rays = ray not said here	some			for the other	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent some=Theme for other=Beneficiary

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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