The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 153

The next morning the mother of the Wind told her that her husband was living in a thick wood, so thick that no axe had been able to cut a way through it; here he had built himself a sort of house by placing trunks of trees together and fastening them with withes and here he lived alone, shunning human kind.

Who acts: mother, husband, axe · What happens: tell, live, be, cut, build, place · To what, where: wind, thick wood, way, axe, husband, trunks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, husband, axe), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wind	det
8	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nmod
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 living	mark
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 living	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 living	aux
15	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 wood	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wood	det
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wood	amod
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 living	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thick	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 thick	advmod
22	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 living	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 able	mark
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 axe	det
25	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 able	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 able	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 able	cop
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thick	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 cut	mark
30	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cut	obj
33	through	through	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cut	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 built	punct
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 built	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 built	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 built	aux
39	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	parataxis
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 built	obj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 sort	det
42	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 built	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 house	case
44	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sort	nmod
45	by	by	SCONJ	_	46 placing	mark
46	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 built	advcl
47	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 placing	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 trees	case
49	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 trunks	nmod
50	together	together	ADV	_	46 placing	advmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 fastening	cc
52	fastening	fasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 placing	conj
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 fastening	obj
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 withes	case
55	withes	withe	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 fastening	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 lived	cc
57	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 lived	advmod
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 lived	nsubj
59	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 built	conj
60	alone	alone	ADV	_	59 lived	advmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 shunning	punct
62	shunning	shun	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 lived	advcl
63	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 kind	amod
64	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 shunning	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the mother of the Wind		wind		morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	live	past · progressive	mother's husband			a thick wood			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
3	is	past · perfect	no axe					able property	tree rules
4	cut	to-infinitive	no axe not said here	a way		axe			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
5	build	past · perfect	husband	husband		here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary sort=Product
6	place	gerund	husband not said here	trunks of trees				together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme
7	fasten	gerund	husband not said here	trunks = trunk				with withes	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with withe=Co-Patient
8	live	past	husband			here		alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	shun	gerund	husband not said here	human kind					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent kind=Location
10	sort			house					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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