The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 27

And the louder the elder called him, ‘Brother, little brother, come to me,’ the swifter he fled after his brothers the wolves, and the heavier grew his skin, till, with a long howl, he vanished into the depths of the forest.

Who acts: louder elder, brother, heavier · What happens: call, come, flee, grow, vanish · To what, where: brother, me, skin, depths · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (louder elder, brother, heavier), 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	_	6 called	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elder	det
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 elder	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elder	det
5	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Brother	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Brother	punct
10	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brother	punct
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brother	amod
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Brother	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
15	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fled	punct
19	’	'	ADP	_	21 swifter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 swifter	det
21	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fled	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fled	nsubj
23	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	advcl
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 brothers	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brothers	nmod:poss
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fled	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wolves	det
28	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 brothers	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grew	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 grew	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 heavier	det
32	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 grew	nsubj
33	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fled	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 skin	nmod:poss
35	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grew	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 till	punct
37	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 skin	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 howl	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 howl	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 howl	det
41	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 howl	amod
42	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grew	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 vanished	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 vanished	nsubj
45	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 grew	conj
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 depths	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 depths	det
48	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 vanished	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 forest	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 forest	det
51	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 depths	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the louder elder		brother				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	come	infinitive	the louder elder not said here		me				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
3	flee	past	brother				after brother's brothers and the wolves	' the swifter	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	the heavier	brother's skin and till				with a long howl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skin=Patient with howl=Instrument
5	vanish	past	brother			the depths of the forest			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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