The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 3

At last, after many days, he came to the river, and beyond it he noticed a small hut standing on a hill which he guessed to be the home of the Bad One.

Who acts: he, small hut · What happens: come, notice, stand, guess, be · To what, where: river, small hut, hill, home

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, small hut), 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	_	6 days	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 noticed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 noticed	cc
15	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 noticed	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 noticed	nsubj
18	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hut	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hut	amod
21	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 noticed	obj
22	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 hut	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 hill	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hill	det
25	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 standing	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 guessed	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 guessed	nsubj
28	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hill	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	32 home	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 home	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 home	det
32	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 guessed	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 One	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 One	det
35	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 One	amod
36	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 home	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he		the river	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	notice	past	he	a small hut			beyond river	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	a small hut not said here		a hill			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
4	guess	past	he	a hill				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive	he not said here	the home			of the Bad One	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 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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