The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 8

When they were grown up she resolved to make herself known to them, and chose a time when they were sheltering from the noonday sun in the deep shade of a flowery hedgerow.

Who acts: Fairy, Sylvain · What happens: grow up, resolve, make, know, choose, shelter · To what, where: Sylvain, Fairy, noonday sun, flowery hedgerow

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 (Fairy, Sylvain), 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 grown	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grown	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux:pass
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 resolved	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 resolved	nsubj
7	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 resolved	xcomp
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 make	obj
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 make	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 known	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 chose	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 chose	cc
16	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 resolved	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chose	obj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 sheltering	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sheltering	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sheltering	aux
22	sheltering	shelter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 time	acl:relcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 sun	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sun	det
25	noonday	noonday	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sun	compound
26	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sheltering	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 shade	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shade	det
29	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shade	amod
30	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sheltering	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 hedgerow	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hedgerow	det
33	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hedgerow	amod
34	hedgerow	hedgerow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shade	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · passive		Sylvain					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	resolve	past	Fairy						tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	Fairy					tree rules
4	know	participle	Fairy not said here		Sylvain				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	choose	past	Fairy not said here				time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	shelter	past · progressive	Sylvain			the noonday sun		in the deep shade of a flowery hedgerow	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location
7	shade			a flowery hedgerow					nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

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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