English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 3

After a while as she sat under the shade of a green oak tree she looked up and spied a sprightly dove sitting high up on one of its branches.

Who acts: daughter, sprightly dove · What happens: sit, look up, spy, shade · To what, where: shade, green oak tree, sprightly dove

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, sprightly dove), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sat	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 shade	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shade	det
9	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tree	amod
13	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shade	nmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tree	acl:relcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 looked	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spied	cc
19	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dove	det
21	sprightly	sprightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dove	amod
22	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spied	obj
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 dove	acl
24	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 up	advmod
25	up	up	ADV	_	23 sitting	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 one	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sitting	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 branches	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 branches	nmod:poss
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	daughter		the shade of a green oak tree	while		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under shade=Location
2	look up	past	daughter	a green oak tree not said here				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Attribute
3	spy	past	daughter not said here	a sprightly dove				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus
4	sit	gerund	a sprightly dove not said here				on one of dove's branches	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location
5	shade			a green oak tree				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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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