The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 7

And when they had gone a little way they came upon a hunter, who was on his knees, his gun on his shoulder, aiming at something.

Who acts: trees, hunter · What happens: go, come, be, aim · To what, where: little way, knees, something

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 (trees, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 gone	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gone	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 hunter	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hunter	det
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knees	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 knees	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 knees	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 knees	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knees	nmod:poss
19	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hunter	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gun	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 gun	nmod:poss
22	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hunter	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 shoulder	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoulder	nmod:poss
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gun	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 aiming	punct
27	aiming	aim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gone	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 something	case
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 aiming	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	trees = tree	a little way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	trees = tree	a little way not said here		upon a hunter and man's knees and man's gun on man's shoulder	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	is	past	a hunter and man's knees and man's gun on man's shoulder		man's knees		tree rules
4	aim	gerund	trees = tree not said here		something		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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