The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 74

And the wise man set the boy on the top of a hill where the sun always shone, and he could see every man, but no man could see him.

Who acts: wise man, sun, man · What happens: set, shine, see · To what, where: boy, top, man, sun

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise man, sun, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 set	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 top	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 shone	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shone	nsubj
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 shone	advmod
18	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hill	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 set	conj
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 see	cc
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	the wise man	the boy	the top of a hill		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme on top=Destination
2	shine	past	the sun			always property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	could	man	every man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	see	could	no man	sun			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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