The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 98

Now, three days' journey from the hut on the pastures two brothers Sodno dwelt in a small cottage with their sister Lyma, who tended a large herd of reindeer while they were out hunting.

Who acts: two brothers, sister, pastures, three days · What happens: dwell, tend, hunt, journey · To what, where: pastures, small cottage, large herd, hut

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 (two brothers, sister, pastures, three days), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 journey	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 journey	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 days	case
6	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 journey	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 pastures	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pastures	det
12	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hut	nmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 brothers	nummod
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dwelt	nsubj
15	Sodno	Sodno	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 dwelt	nsubj
16	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pastures	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 cottage	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cottage	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cottage	amod
20	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dwelt	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sister	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sister	nmod:poss
23	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cottage	nmod
24	Lyma	Lyma	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sister	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tended	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 tended	nsubj
27	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sister	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 herd	det
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 herd	amod
30	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tended	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 reindeer	case
32	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 herd	nmod
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 hunting	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hunting	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hunting	aux
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 were	compound:prt
37	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 dwelt	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 journey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dwell	past	two brothers	the pastures not said here	a small cottage with pastures's sister	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pasture=Location
2	tend	past	pastures's sister	a large herd of reindeer		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme
3	hunt	past · progressive	pastures = pasture			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	journey		three days		the hut on the pastures	nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place

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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