The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 20

So she lived in solitude all the daytime, and at night she would have been frightened, had she not been so brave; but every day the crow came and thanked her for her endurance, and assured her that his sufferings were far less than they had been.

Who acts: folk, night, crow, sufferings, room · What happens: live, frighten, have, not be, come, thank · To what, where: daytime, solitude, folk

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk, night, crow, sufferings), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 solitude	case
5	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 daytime	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daytime	det
8	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 frightened	nsubj:pass
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 frightened	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 frightened	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 frightened	aux:pass
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 night	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brave	nsubj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 brave	advmod
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 brave	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 brave	advmod
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 had	parataxis
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl:unmarked
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 crow	det
30	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thanked	cc
33	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 came	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thanked	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 endurance	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 endurance	nmod:poss
37	endurance	endurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thanked	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 assured	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 assured	cc
40	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 came	conj
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 assured	iobj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 less	mark
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 sufferings	nmod:poss
44	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 less	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 less	cop
46	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 less	advmod
47	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 assured	obl
48	than	than	SCONJ	_	51 been	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 been	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 been	aux
51	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 less	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	folk	all daytime		solitude			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in solitude=Location
2	frighten	would · perfect · passive	night not said here	folk					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	have	past	folk not said here				night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is	participle	folk					brave property	tree rules
5	come	past	the crow				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	thank speech: thank	past	the crow not said here		folk			for folk's endurance	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for endurance=Attribute
7	assure	past	the crow not said here		folk				vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
8	is	past	room's sufferings					far, less property	tree rules
9	be	past · perfect	sufferings = suffering						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	suffer		room						nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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