Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 146

And the old man, who had been talking, was just on the point of going out at the door, and he did go.

Who acts: old man, point, man · What happens: talk, be, go out, go · To what, where: old man, point, door

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, point, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 man	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 point	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talking	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 talking	obl
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 talking	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 talking	aux
9	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 man	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 point	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	15 point	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 point	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 point	det
15	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
17	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 point	acl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 going	compound:prt
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 point	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	talk	past · perfect · progressive	the old man not said here	the old man		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the old man		the point	tree rules
3	go out	gerund	the point not said here		the door	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past · do-support	man			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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