The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 63

But the man from the wood just took up his stand before the mountain and began to eat, and in one day it had all vanished.

Who acts: man · What happens: take up, begin, eat, vanish · To what, where: stand, mountain

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 took	advmod
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 took	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stand	nmod:poss
11	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 mountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountain	det
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 vanished	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 vanished	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 vanished	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 vanished	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 vanished	aux
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 vanished	advmod
27	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 took	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	the man from the wood	man's stand	the mountain			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stand=Theme before mountain=Destination
2	begin	past	the man from the wood not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	eat	to-infinitive	the man from the wood not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	vanish	past · perfect · passive		mountain		day	all property	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 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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