The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 64

When he had sat there a little while a cloud swept by, and, seizing him, carried him away.

Who acts: Hunter · What happens: sit, sweep, seize, carry away · To what, where: little, cloud, Hunter

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	aux
4	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	obl:unmarked
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 cloud	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cloud	det
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	advcl
11	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cloud	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 swept	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seizing	punct
16	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 carried	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seizing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seizing	punct
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obj
21	away	away	ADV	_	19 carried	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect	Hunter	a little	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sweep	participle		a cloud not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seize	gerund		Hunter			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	carry away	past	Hunter not said here	Hunter		away 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 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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