The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 56

Day and night he spent out in the open fields, and only when it was very wet and stormy did he take refuge in a little hut on the edge of a big forest.

Who acts: Day, living, BOY · What happens: spend out, be, take · To what, where: open fields, refuge, little hut

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, living, BOY), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spent	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 night	cc
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	conj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spent	nsubj
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 spent	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fields	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fields	amod
10	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spent	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	18 wet	advmod
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 wet	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wet	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wet	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 wet	advmod
18	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 take	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stormy	cc
20	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wet	conj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spent	advcl
24	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 hut	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hut	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hut	amod
28	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 edge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 edge	det
31	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 forest	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 forest	det
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 forest	amod
35	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 edge	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend out	past	Day and night		the open fields		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	living			wet property	tree rules
3	be		living not said here				tree rules
4	take	past · do-support	BOY	refuge	a little hut	on the edge of a big forest	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme on edge=Destination

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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