The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 97

For, the first time he came up, the great hills were covered with thick forests, in which wild animals roamed, and Rübezahl watched the fierce fights between bear and bison, or chased the grey wolves, or amused himself by rolling great rocks down into the desolate valleys, to hear the thunder of their fall echoing among the hills.

Who acts: thing, Rübezahl, fall · What happens: come up, cover, roam, watch, chase, amuse · To what, where: first time, great hills, wild animals, fierce fights, grey wolves, thing

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, Rübezahl, fall), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 time	case
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 For	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hills	amod
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 covered	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 covered	aux:pass
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 forests	case
16	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forests	amod
17	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 covered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 animals	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 animals	det
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 animals	amod
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 forests	nmod
23	roamed	roam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 animals	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 watched	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 watched	cc
26	Rübezahl	Rübezahl	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 watched	nsubj
27	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 covered	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fights	det
29	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fights	amod
30	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 watched	obj
31	between	between	ADP	_	32 bear	case
32	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fights	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bison	cc
34	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bear	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 chased	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 chased	cc
37	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 watched	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wolves	det
39	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 wolves	amod
40	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 chased	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 amused	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 amused	cc
43	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 watched	conj
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 amused	obj
45	by	by	SCONJ	_	46 rolling	mark
46	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 amused	advcl
47	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 rocks	amod
48	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rolling	obj
49	down	down	ADV	_	46 rolling	advmod
50	into	into	ADP	_	53 valleys	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 valleys	det
52	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 valleys	compound
53	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rolling	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 hear	punct
55	to	to	PART	_	56 hear	mark
56	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 amused	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 thunder	det
58	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 hear	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 fall	case
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 fall	nmod:poss
61	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 thunder	nmod
62	echoing	echo	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 fall	acl
63	among	among	ADP	_	65 hills	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 hills	det
65	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 echoing	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	thing	the first time not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
2	cover	past · passive		the great hills		time	with thick forests which wild animals	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with forest=Theme
3	roam	participle		which wild animals not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	watch	past	Rübezahl	the fierce fights			between bear and bison	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme
5	chase	past	Rübezahl not said here	the grey wolves				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
6	amuse	past	Rübezahl not said here	thing				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
7	roll down	gerund	Rübezahl not said here	great rocks	the desolate valleys		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rock=Theme into valley=Trajectory
8	desolate	infinitive						tree rules
9	hear	to-infinitive	Rübezahl not said here	the thunder of hills's fall				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus
10	echo	gerund	hills's fall not said here		the hills			vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among hill=Location
11	thunder		hills's fall					nom thunder «event 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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