The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 79

Before very long the young men who lived in the neighbouring villages or on the sides of the mountains, had heard of this talk of the three girls, and Sigmunds and Sigurds in scores came to visit the little cottage.

Who acts: young men, Sigmunds, three girls · What happens: live, hear, come, visit, talk · To what, where: neighbouring villages, little cottage

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. 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, Sigmunds, three girls), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
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	3 long	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 men	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 villages	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 villages	det
11	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 villages	compound
12	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 sides	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 sides	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sides	det
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 villages	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mountains	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mountains	det
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sides	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 lived	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 talk	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 talk	det
25	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 girls	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girls	det
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 girls	nummod
29	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 talk	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
32	Sigmunds	sigmund	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 came	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Sigurds	cc
34	Sigurds	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 Sigmunds	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 scores	case
36	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 Sigmunds	nmod
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 visit	mark
39	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 came	xcomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cottage	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 cottage	amod
42	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 visit	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the young men		the neighbouring villages or the sides of the mountains		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
2	hear	past · perfect				of this talk of the three girls	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of talk=Stimulus
3	come	past	Sigmunds in scores and Sigurds				tree rules
4	visit	to-infinitive	Sigmunds in scores and Sigurds not said here	the little cottage			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Co-Agent
5	talk		the three girls				nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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