The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 72

Just as he was sitting down under a tree he heard a cry close to him, and saw a fox which had been caught in a trap placed there by the farmer.

Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: sit down, hear, see, catch, place · To what, where: tree, cry, fox, trap

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:2113): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	5 sitting	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 sitting	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 heard	advcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sitting	compound:prt
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cry	det
13	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cry	amod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 close	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fox	det
21	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 caught	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 caught	aux:pass
25	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 fox	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 trap	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 trap	det
28	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	obl
29	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 trap	acl
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 placed	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 farmer	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 farmer	det
33	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past · progressive	Iwanich		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	hear	past	Iwanich	a cry			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
3	see	past	Iwanich not said here	a fox			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus
4	catch	past · perfect · passive		a fox	a trap		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	place	participle		a trap not said here	there	by the farmer	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by farmer=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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