English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 42

They moved down slowly to stately music till they came past the trees on which the birds were settling.

Who acts: friends, birds · What happens: move down, come, settle · To what, where: music, trees

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 (friends, birds), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 moved	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 moved	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 music	case
6	stately	stately	ADV	_	7 music	advmod
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	advcl
11	past	past	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 settling	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birds	det
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 settling	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 settling	aux
19	settling	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 trees	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	move down	past	friends = friend	music	down, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory
2	come	past	friends = friend	the trees		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past tree=Initial_Location
3	settle	past · progressive	the birds		on the trees	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on which=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: «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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