The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 105

For many years they lived peacefully and happily in this sheltered place, never leaving it except to hunt the wild animals, which served them both for food and clothes.

Who acts: friends, wild animals · What happens: live, shelter, not leave, hunt, serve · To what, where: sheltered place, place, wild animals, 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 (friends, wild animals), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 happily	cc
8	happily	happily	ADV	_	6 peacefully	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 place	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 place	det
11	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 place	amod
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leaving	punct
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 leaving	advmod
15	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lived	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 leaving	obj
17	except	except	ADP	_	19 hunt	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hunt	mark
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 leaving	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 animals	det
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 animals	amod
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hunt	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 served	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 served	nsubj
25	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 animals	acl:relcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 served	obj
27	both	both	ADV	_	25 served	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 food	case
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 served	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 clothes	cc
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	29 food	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	friends = friend		this sheltered place	year	peacefully property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
2	shelter	participle						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not leave	gerund	friends = friend not said here	place				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	hunt	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here	the wild animals				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
5	serve	past	the wild animals	friends = friend			for food and clothes; both property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme for food=Recipient

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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