The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 103
Once upon a time an Indian hunter built himself a house in the middle of a great forest, far away from all his tribe; for his heart was gentle and kind, and he was weary of the treachery and cruel deeds of those who had been his friends.
Who acts: Indian hunter, heart, hunter · What happens: build, be · To what, where: hunter, middle, friends
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Indian hunter, heart, 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 built | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hunter | det |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hunter | amod |
| 7 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | nsubj |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 built | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forest | amod |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 middle | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 away | advmod |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 built | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 tribe | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 tribe | det:predet |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 away | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 gentle | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 gentle | mark |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gentle | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gentle | cop |
| 31 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 built | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 kind | cc |
| 33 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gentle | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 weary | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 weary | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 weary | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 weary | cop |
| 38 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gentle | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 treachery | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 treachery | det |
| 41 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 weary | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 deeds | cc |
| 43 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 deeds | amod |
| 44 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 treachery | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 those | case |
| 46 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 44 deeds | nmod |
| 47 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 friends | obl |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 friends | aux |
| 49 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 51 friends | cop |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 friends | nmod:poss |
| 51 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 those | appos |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | a Indian hunter | hunter | the middle of a great forest | away, once property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary house=Product | ||
| 2 | is | past | hunter's heart | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | hunter's heart not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | hunter | of the treachery and cruel deeds of those; weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | hunter's friends | tree rules |
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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