The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 8

And while the snow lay thick upon the ground, they tended him and cherished him; but when the earth showed green again, the heart of the young man stirred within him, and he longed to see the wigwams of the village where his father’s youth was spent.

Who acts: snow, moons, earth, heart · What happens: lie, tend, cherish, show, stir, long · To what, where: snow, wigwams, youth

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, moons, earth, heart), 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	_	12 tended	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 lay	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tended	advcl
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lay	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thick	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tended	nsubj
12	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tended	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cherished	cc
15	cherished	cherish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tended	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cherished	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 stirred	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 stirred	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 showed	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 earth	det
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 showed	nsubj
22	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stirred	advcl
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 showed	xcomp
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 showed	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heart	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heart	det
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stirred	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 man	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heart	nmod
32	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tended	conj
33	within	within	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stirred	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 longed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 longed	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 longed	nsubj
38	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tended	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 see	mark
40	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 longed	xcomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wigwams	det
42	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 see	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 village	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 village	det
45	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wigwams	nmod
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 spent	advmod
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 father	nmod:poss
48	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 youth	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 father	case
50	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 spent	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 spent	aux:pass
52	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 village	acl:relcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the snow			thick property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tend	past	moons = moon	snow			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	cherish	past	moons = moon not said here	snow			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	show	past	the earth		again	green property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stir	past	the heart of the young man			within earth	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	long	past	heart				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	heart not said here	the wigwams of the village			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wigwam=Stimulus
8	spend	past · passive		earth's father's youth			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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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