The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 19

And by-and-by, having no other friends, he sought their company, and sat by while they devoured their prey, and they grew to know him, and gave him food.

Who acts: snow, friends · What happens: have, seek, sit by, devour, grow, know · To what, where: other friends, company, prey, snow, food

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 (snow, friends), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 sought	cc
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 having	mark
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 having	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 having	cc
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 and	punct
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 having	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 by	punct
8	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sought	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 friends	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friends	amod
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 having	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 having	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sought	nsubj
14	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 company	nmod:poss
16	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sought	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sought	parataxis
20	by	by	ADP	_	19 sat	obl
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 devoured	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 devoured	nsubj
23	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 prey	nmod:poss
25	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 devoured	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grew	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 know	mark
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 grew	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 know	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gave	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gave	cc
35	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grew	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gave	iobj
37	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gave	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	gerund	snow not said here	no other friends		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
2	seek	past	snow	friends's company		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
3	sit by	past				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	devour	past	friends = friend	friends's prey		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient
5	grow	past	friends = friend			tree rules
6	know	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here	snow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	give	past	friends = friend not said here	food	snow	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=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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