The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 20

As soon as the next moon was full the hunter’s wife went to the mill-pond, played on a golden flute, and when she had finished placed it on the bank.

Who acts: next moon, wife · What happens: be, go, play, finish, place · To what, where: mill pond, golden flute, moon, bank

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next moon, wife), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 full	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 full	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moon	amod
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hunter	det
10	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wife	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 hunter	case
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 pond	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pond	det
16	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pond	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 mill	punct
18	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 played	punct
20	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 pond	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 flute	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 flute	det
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 flute	amod
24	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 played	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 finished	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 finished	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 finished	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 finished	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 finished	aux
30	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 went	conj
31	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 finished	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 placed	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 bank	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bank	det
35	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 placed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the next moon			full, soon property	tree rules
2	go	past	the hunter's wife		the mill pond		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
3	play	participle		the mill pond not said here	a golden flute		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	finish	past · perfect	wife				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	place	participle	wife not said here	moon	the bank		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bank=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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