More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 53

Now the third day being come as he still stood and gazed, a shopkeeper hard by spoke to him.

Who acts: salmon · What happens: come, stand, gaze, speak · To what, where: shopkeeper, salmon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl:unmarked
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 come	aux:pass
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stood	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stood	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 stood	advmod
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gazed	cc
12	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stood	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shopkeeper	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shopkeeper	det
15	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gazed	obl
16	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 gazed	advmod
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 spoke	mark
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gazed	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund · passive				now; day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»
2	stand	past	salmon			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gaze	past	salmon not said here	a shopkeeper			hard property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	past	salmon not said here		salmon			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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