The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 7

Scarcely eight moons had passed when, just as he had said, the wife went forth, and followed her husband; but before leaving her children she bade the two elder ones think of their promise never to forsake the younger, for he was a child, and weak.

Who acts: hunter, wife, two elder ones, promise, children · What happens: pass, say, go, follow, leave, bade · To what, where: Scarcely eight moons, husband, children, younger · 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 (hunter, wife, two elder ones, promise), 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	Scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moons	amod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 moons	nummod
3	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 passed	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	parataxis
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 followed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 followed	cc
20	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 husband	nmod:poss
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 followed	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 bade	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 bade	cc
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 leaving	mark
26	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 bade	advcl
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 children	nmod:poss
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 leaving	obj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bade	nsubj
30	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ones	det
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 ones	nummod
33	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ones	amod
34	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 think	nsubj
35	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 bade	parataxis
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	41 forsake	mark
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 promise	nmod:poss
38	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 forsake	nsubj
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 forsake	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 forsake	mark
41	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 think	ccomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 younger	det
43	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 forsake	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 child	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	49 child	case
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 child	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 child	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 child	det
49	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 forsake	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 weak	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 weak	cc
52	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bade	parataxis
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		Scarcely eight moons		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	hunter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	the wife		forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	past	the wife not said here	wife's husband		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
5	leave	gerund	wife not said here	wife's children		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
6	bade	past	wife			tree rules
7	think speech: other	present	the two elder ones			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	not forsake	to-infinitive	children's promise	the younger		tree rules
9	is	past	hunter		for a child	tree rules
10	promise		children = child			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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