The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 62

Here he lived by fishing and hunting, always hoping that the good Fairy would presently rescue him.

Who acts: Japan, good Fairy · What happens: live, hope, rescue · To what, where: Japan

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japan, good Fairy), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 fishing	case
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hunting	cc
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fishing	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hoping	punct
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 hoping	advmod
10	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lived	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 rescue	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Fairy	amod
14	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rescue	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rescue	aux
16	presently	presently	ADV	_	17 rescue	advmod
17	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hoping	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rescue	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	Japan		here	by fishing and hunting	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fishing=Location
2	hope	gerund	Japan not said here			always property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	rescue	would	the good Fairy	Japan		presently property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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