The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 23

Next to his daughter, Balancin loved hunting, and it was his custom to spend several mornings every week chasing the boars which abounded in the mountains a few miles from the city.

Who acts: Balancin, hunting, boars · What happens: love, be, spend, chase, abound · To what, where: hunting, custom, boars, few miles, mountains

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balancin, hunting, boars), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	7 loved	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 daughter	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Next	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Next	punct
6	Balancin	Balancin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 loved	nsubj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loved	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 custom	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 custom	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 custom	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 custom	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 custom	nmod:poss
14	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loved	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 spend	mark
16	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 custom	acl
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mornings	amod
18	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spend	obj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 week	det
20	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spend	obl:unmarked
21	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 spend	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boars	det
23	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 chasing	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 abounded	nsubj
25	abounded	abound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 boars	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 mountains	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mountains	det
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 abounded	obl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 miles	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 miles	amod
31	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 abounded	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 city	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 city	det
34	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 abounded	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	Balancin	hunting			next property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunting=Stimulus
2	is a	past	hunting	Balancin's custom				tree rules
3	spend	to-infinitive	Balancin not said here			morning; week		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	chase	gerund	Balancin not said here	the boars				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme
5	abound	past	the boars	a few miles	the mountains		from the city	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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