The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 109

“When I came to the foot of those hills which lie outside the city I saw Gul dismount and go towards a house which some negroes have built there.

Who acts: Tiger, hills · What happens: come, lie, see, dismount, go, build · To what, where: foot, city, Gul, house

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger, hills), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 foot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foot	det
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hills	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 hills	det
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 foot	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lie	nsubj
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hills	acl:relcl
13	outside	outside	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 city	acl:relcl
18	Gul	Gul	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
19	dismount	dismount	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
21	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 dismount	conj
22	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 built	nsubj:pass
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 negroes	det
27	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 built	nsubj:pass
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 built	aux
29	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 house	acl:relcl
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 built	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Tiger		the foot of that hills	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
2	lie in a quote	present	that hills		the city	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside city=Location
3	see in a quote	past	Tiger	Gul		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gul=Stimulus
4	dismount in a quote	infinitive	Tiger not said here			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	go in a quote	infinitive	Tiger not said here		a house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards house=Initial_Location
6	build in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a house	there	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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