More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 132
When he rode up to the door he had the same salute as from the first old man, but this one was even uglier than the first one.
Who acts: man, one · What happens: ride up, have, be · To what, where: door, same salute
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 (man, one), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rode | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 salute | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 salute | amod |
| 12 | salute | salute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 man | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 man | amod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 uglier | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 uglier | cc |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 uglier | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 uglier | cop |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 uglier | advmod |
| 25 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 rode | conj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 one | amod |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 uglier | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | man | the door | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to door=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | past | man | the same salute | from the first old man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salute=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | this one | than the first one; ugly property | tree rules |
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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