The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 21

At the edge of the stream sat an old hermit with a long white beard, who neither spoke nor moved as the king approached, but sat throwing into the stream dry leaves which lay scattered about the ground near him.

Who acts: long white beard, king, dry leaves · What happens: sit, speak, move, approach, throw, lie · To what, where: old hermit, edge, dry leaves, stream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long white beard, king, dry leaves), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 edge	det
3	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 edge	nmod
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hermit	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hermit	amod
10	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 beard	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 beard	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beard	amod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beard	amod
15	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spoke	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 spoke	nsubj
18	neither	neither	ADV	_	19 spoke	advmod
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beard	parataxis
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 moved	cc
21	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spoke	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 approached	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 approached	nsubj
25	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 moved	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
29	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sat	advcl
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 stream	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stream	det
32	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throwing	obl
33	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 leaves	amod
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 throwing	obj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 leaves	acl:relcl
37	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 lay	xcomp
38	about	about	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 scattered	obl
41	near	near	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 ground	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a old hermit	the edge of the stream	with a long white beard	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hermit=Theme at edge=Location
2	speak speech: other	past	a long white beard			neither property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	move	past	a long white beard not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	approach	past	the king				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	throw	gerund		dry leaves		into the stream result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer leaf=Theme into stream=Result
7	lie	past	dry leaves				tree rules
8	scatter	participle	dry leaves not said here			about the ground near king	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme about ground=Destination

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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