The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 22

And it happened one day that his big brother was fishing in his canoe near the shore, and he heard the voice of a child singing in the Indian tone--

Who acts: it, big brother, snow, child · What happens: happen, fish, hear, sing · To what, where: canoe, voice, Indian tone

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 (it, big brother, snow, child), 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	_	3 happened	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl:unmarked
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fishing	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fishing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fishing	aux
11	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 happened	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 canoe	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 canoe	nmod:poss
14	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fishing	obl
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fishing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 voice	det
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 child	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 voice	nmod
27	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 child	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 tone	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tone	det
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tone	amod
31	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 singing	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fish	past · progressive	snow's big brother		snow's canoe		near the shore	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in canoe=Location
3	hear	past	snow	the voice of a child				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express	gerund	a child not said here		the Indian tone			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location

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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