More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 115

At last he came to an old house, near a great forest, and there was an old man sitting out by the door, and his look was enough to frighten you or any one else; and the old man said to him:

Who acts: chap, old man, look · What happens: come, be, sit out, frighten, say · To what, where: last, you, chap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chap, old man, look), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forest	punct
10	near	near	ADP	_	13 forest	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 forest	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forest	amod
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 man	acl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 sitting	compound:prt
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 door	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enough	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 enough	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 look	nmod:poss
29	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 enough	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 enough	cop
31	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 frighten	mark
33	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 enough	advcl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 frighten	obj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 one	cc
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 you	conj
38	else	else	ADV	_	37 one	advmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 said	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 man	det
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 man	amod
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 said	nsubj
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 said	obl
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	chap			last	to a old house and a great forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	be	past	a old man			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit out	gerund	a old man not said here				by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location
4	is	past	chap's look				enough property	tree rules
5	frighten	to-infinitive	chap's look not said here	you				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	past	the old man		chap			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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