The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 4

Day after day they fed their flocks of sheep together, and spent the long sunshiny hours in playing, or resting upon some shady bank.

Who acts: Day · What happens: feed, spend, rest · To what, where: flocks, playing, shady bank

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 (Day), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fed	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	nmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 flocks	nmod:poss
7	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sheep	case
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flocks	nmod
10	together	together	ADV	_	5 fed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spent	cc
13	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hours	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hours	amod
16	sunshiny	sunshiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hours	amod
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spent	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 playing	case
19	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spent	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 resting	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 resting	cc
22	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 spent	advcl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 bank	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 bank	det
25	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bank	amod
26	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 resting	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	Day after day	Sylvain's flocks of sheep			together property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient
2	spend	past	Day after day not said here		playing	hour		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	rest	gerund	Day after day not said here		some shady bank			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bank=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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