The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 89
But year after year went by, and the boy grew up and became a great hunter, and the lord of the land took him into his service, for he was as smart and bold a hunter as you would wish to see.
Who acts: boy, lord, miller, you · What happens: go by, grow up, become, take, be, wish · To what, where: great hunter, boy, service
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (boy, lord, miller, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 year | nmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grew | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hunter | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hunter | amod |
| 17 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lord | det |
| 21 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 land | det |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lord | nmod |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 service | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 service | nmod:poss |
| 29 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 smart | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 smart | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 smart | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 smart | cop |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 smart | case |
| 35 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 took | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bold | cc |
| 37 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 smart | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hunter | det |
| 39 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 smart | conj |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 wish | mark |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 wish | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 wish | aux |
| 43 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 smart | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 see | mark |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 wish | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow up | past | the boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | the boy not said here | a great hunter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the lord of the land | boy | miller's service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into service=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | past | miller | smart property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | miller not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | wish | would | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | service | miller | nom service «act transitive»: 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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