The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 78

All day long the young men fished and hunted, while their sister took out the kids to pasture on the mountain, or stayed at home helping her mother and mending the nets.

Who acts: young men, sister · What happens: fish, hunt, take out, pasture, stay, help · To what, where: kids, mountain, home, mother, nets

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 (young men, sister), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 fished	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fished	nsubj
7	fished	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hunted	cc
9	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fished	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 took	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sister	nmod:poss
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fished	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 took	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kids	det
17	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 took	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 pasture	mark
19	pasture	pasture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 took	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 mountain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mountain	det
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pasture	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stayed	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 stayed	cc
25	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fished	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stayed	obl
28	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 stayed	advcl
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 helping	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mending	cc
32	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 helping	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 nets	det
34	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 mending	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fish	past	the young men				long property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	past	the young men not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take out	past	men's sister	the kids				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme
4	pasture	to-infinitive	men's sister not said here			the mountain		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mountain=Destination
5	stay	past	the young men not said here			home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
6	help	gerund	the young men not said here		sister's mother			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Beneficiary
7	mend	gerund	the young men not said here	the nets				tree rules

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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