The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 11

The hunter agreed and went with him, and they came to seven windmills whose sails were going round quite fast, and yet there was not a breath of wind, nor was a leaf moving.

Who acts: hunter, sails, leaf · What happens: agree, go, come, not be, be, move · To what, where: seven windmills, breath, leaf

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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, sails, leaf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 windmills	case
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 windmills	nummod
14	windmills	windmill	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	obl
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 sails	nmod:poss
16	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 going	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 windmills	acl:relcl
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 fast	advmod
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 round	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 breath	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 breath	cc
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	26 was	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 breath	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 breath	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 breath	det
29	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 wind	case
31	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 breath	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 leaf	punct
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 leaf	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 leaf	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 leaf	det
36	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
37	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 leaf	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the hunter				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the hunter not said here			with man	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
3	come	past	hunter		seven windmills		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to windmill=Initial_Location
4	go	past · progressive	sails			round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is a	past		a breath		of wind	tree rules
6	is a	past		a leaf			tree rules
7	move	gerund	a leaf not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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