The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 59

And when the wind whistled through the forest, and the snow stood in great banks round the door, the father used to take the little boy on his knee and tell him how he caught salmon in the Land of the Sun.

Who acts: wind, snow, father · What happens: whistle, stand, use, take, tell, catch · To what, where: forest, great banks, little boy, knee, father, salmon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, snow, father), 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	_	13 stood	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 whistled	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whistled	nsubj
5	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	advcl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whistled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 banks	case
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 banks	amod
16	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	obl
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 father	det
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 used	nsubj
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 take	mark
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boy	amod
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 knee	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 knee	nmod:poss
31	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tell	cc
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 caught	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 caught	nsubj
37	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	advcl
38	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 caught	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 Land	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Land	det
41	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 caught	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 Sun.	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Sun.	det
44	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Land	nmod

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	the wind			the forest		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location
2	stand	past	the snow			great banks	round the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bank=Location
3	use	past	the father					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	take	to-infinitive	the father not said here	the little boy		father's knee		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme on knee=Destination
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the father not said here		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	catch	past	father	salmon		the Land of the Sun.		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme

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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