The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 2

He had a merry and light heart, and as he went whistling along there came an ugly old woman, who said to him, ‘Good-day, dear hunter!

Who acts: Hunter, ugly old woman · What happens: have, go, whistle, come, say · To what, where: merry heart, Hunter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, ugly old woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 heart	det
4	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heart	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 light	cc
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 merry	conj
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
13	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 came	csubj
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 whistling	advmod
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 whistling	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
18	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 woman	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 day	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 day	punct
28	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Good	punct
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hunter	punct
32	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hunter	amod
33	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Hunter	a merry heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	go	past	Hunter						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	whistle	gerund				there		along property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	a ugly old woman						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	a ugly old woman		Hunter		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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