The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 23

In summer the boy always lay out in the sun, while the girl hid herself in the cellar: so it happened that the brother and sister came very little into contact with each other--in fact, they carefully avoided it.

Who acts: boy, girl, it, brother, flames · What happens: lie out, hide, happen, come, avoid · To what, where: sun, girl, cellar, little, contact, fact

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, girl, it, brother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 summer	case
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 lay	advmod
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 lay	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hid	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 hid	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hid	nsubj
15	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	advcl
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 hid	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 cellar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cellar	det
19	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hid	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 happened	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 happened	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 happened	nsubj
23	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brother	det
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sister	cc
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brother	conj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 happened	advcl
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 little	advmod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 came	obl:unmarked
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 contact	case
33	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 each	case
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 contact	nmod
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 each	fixed
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 avoided	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 fact	case
39	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 avoided	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fact	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 avoided	nsubj
42	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	43 avoided	advmod
43	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 happened	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 avoided	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie out	past	the boy		the sun	summer	always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
2	hide	past	the girl	girl	the cellar			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in cellar=Location
3	happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the brother and sister	little	contact with each			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into contact=Initial_Location
5	avoid	past	flames = flame	fact	fact		carefully property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

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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