The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 17

While he was sitting in the place where the wood-cutters had left him, he took up a stone that lay near him, and idly dropped it on the ground.

Who acts: Hassebu, stone · What happens: sit, leave, take up, lie, drop · To what, where: place, wood cutters, Hassebu, stone, ground

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hassebu, stone), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 sitting	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 took	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 left	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cutters	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cutters	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 wood	punct
12	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 left	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 place	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 took	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stone	det
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lay	nsubj
23	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stone	acl:relcl
24	near	near	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lay	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dropped	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dropped	cc
28	idly	idly	ADV	_	29 dropped	advmod
29	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dropped	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dropped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Hassebu			the place		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
2	leave	past · perfect · passive		the wood cutters	Hassebu			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
3	take up	past	Hassebu	a stone				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	lie	past	a stone				near Hassebu	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location
5	drop	past	Hassebu not said here	stone		the ground	idly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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