The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 36

When they had explored and admired until they were tired they sat down to rest under the rose-covered porch, and the Fairy said that to pass the time until the wedding guests whom she had invited could arrive she would tell them a story.

Who acts: Sylvain, Fairy, wedding guests · What happens: explore, admire, be, sit down, rest, cover · To what, where: covered porch, wedding guests, story, Sylvain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sylvain, Fairy, wedding guests), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 explored	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 explored	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 explored	aux
4	explored	explore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 admired	cc
6	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 explored	conj
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 tired	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tired	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tired	cop
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 admired	xcomp
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tired	ccomp
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rest	mark
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sat	advcl
16	under	under	ADP	_	21 porch	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 porch	det
18	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 covered	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 rose	punct
20	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 porch	amod
21	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rest	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Fairy	det
25	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 explored	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 pass	mark
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pass	mark
29	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pass	obj
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 arrive	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 guests	det
34	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 guests	compound
35	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 arrive	nsubj
36	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 invited	nsubj:pass
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 invited	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 invited	aux
39	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 guests	acl:relcl
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 arrive	aux
41	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 pass	advcl
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 tell	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 tell	aux
44	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 arrive	ccomp
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 tell	iobj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 story	det
47	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tell	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 explored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explore	past · perfect	Sylvain						vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
2	admire	participle	Sylvain not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Sylvain					tired property	tree rules
4	sit down	past	Sylvain					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rest	to-infinitive	Sylvain not said here			the covered porch			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under porch=Location
6	cover	participle							vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	pass	to-infinitive					time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	invite	past · perfect · passive		the wedding guests					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
10	arrive	could	the wedding guests						tree rules
11	tell speech: assert	would	Fairy	a story	Sylvain				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic

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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