The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 18

But when the snows began and the wind howled, then his stomach felt empty and his limbs cold, and he hid in trees all the night, and only crept out to eat what the wolves had left behind.

Who acts: snows, wind, stomach · What happens: begin, howl, feel, hide, creep out, eat · To what, where: trees, wolves

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snows, wind, stomach), 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	_	23 hid	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snows	det
4	snows	snow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hid	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 howled	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 howled	nsubj
9	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 felt	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stomach	nmod:poss
13	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
15	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 felt	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cold	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 limbs	nmod:poss
18	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cold	nsubj
19	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 empty	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hid	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hid	nsubj
23	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 trees	case
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hid	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 night	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hid	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crept	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crept	cc
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 crept	advmod
32	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hid	conj
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 crept	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 crept	xcomp
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 eat	obj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wolves	det
38	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 left	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 left	aux
40	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 what	acl:relcl
41	behind	behind	ADV	_	40 left	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the snows					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	howl	past	the wind					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	wind's stomach			then	empty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	hide	past	stomach		trees	night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
5	creep out	past	stomach not said here				out property	tree rules
6	eat	to-infinitive	stomach not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
7	leave behind	past · perfect · passive		the wolves			behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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