The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 77

On the shores of the west, where the great hills stand with their feet in the sea, dwelt a goatherd and his wife, together with their three sons and one daughter.

Who acts: great hills · What happens: stand, dwell · To what, where: sea, goatherd, shores

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great hills), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 shores	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shores	det
3	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dwelt	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 west	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 west	det
6	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shores	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stand	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 stand	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hills	amod
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stand	nsubj
12	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 west	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stand	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stand	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shores	punct
20	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 goatherd	det
22	goatherd	goatherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dwelt	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wife	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 goatherd	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sons	punct
27	together	together	ADV	_	31 sons	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 sons	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sons	nmod:poss
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 sons	nummod
31	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dwelt	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 daughter	cc
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 daughter	nummod
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sons	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	the great hills			the sea		with hills's feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location
2	dwell	past		a goatherd and Covan's wife		the shores of the west		with hills's three sons and one daughter	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme goatherd=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 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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