The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 6

He put aside his bow, and went neither to fight nor to hunt, but from sunrise to sunset he sat by the place where she was laid, thinking of his happiness that was buried there.

Who acts: heart · What happens: put aside, go, fight, hunt, sit, lay · To what, where: bow, illness, happiness

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	aside	aside	ADP	_	2 put	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bow	nmod:poss
5	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
9	neither	neither	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fight	mark
11	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 hunt	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hunt	mark
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fight	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 sunrise	case
18	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 sunset	case
20	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sunrise	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 place	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 laid	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laid	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 laid	aux:pass
29	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 place	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thinking	punct
31	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 happiness	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 happiness	nmod:poss
34	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thinking	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 buried	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 buried	aux:pass
37	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 happiness	acl:relcl
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 buried	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put aside	past	heart	heart's bow				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bow=Goal
2	go	past	heart not said here				neither property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fight	to-infinitive	heart not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hunt	to-infinitive	heart not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sit	past	heart			sunrise	by the place	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by place=Location
6	lay	past · passive		illness				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
7	think speech: other	gerund	heart not said here				of heart's happiness	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bury	past · passive		heart's happiness	there			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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