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

Then he proceeded to skin it, never noticing that he was close to the mill-pond, which from childhood up he had been taught to avoid.

Who acts: hunter · What happens: proceed, not notice, be, teach, avoid · To what, where: skin, hunter

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 proceeded	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proceeded	nsubj
3	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 skin	mark
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proceeded	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proceeded	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 noticing	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 noticing	advmod
9	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 proceeded	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 close	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 close	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 close	cop
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 noticing	advcl
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 close	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 childhood	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 childhood	nsubj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 childhood	case
22	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pond	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	27 taught	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 taught	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 taught	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 taught	aux:pass
27	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 close	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 avoid	mark
29	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 taught	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	hunter	skin	then		tree rules
2	not notice	gerund	hunter not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	hunter			to the mill pond and childhood; close property	tree rules
4	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		hunter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	avoid	to-infinitive	hunter not said here				vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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