The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 57

Then the young man walked slowly past, in order that he might look at him more closely, and as he did so the old man smiled, and held out his hand.

Who acts: young man, man, old man · What happens: walk, look, do, smile, hold out · To what, where: order, hand

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, old 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 walked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 past	advmod
7	past	past	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 order	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 look	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 order	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 closely	advmod
18	closely	closely	ADV	_	14 look	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 did	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 smiled	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smiled	nsubj
28	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 did	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 held	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 held	cc
31	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 held	compound:prt
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hand	nmod:poss
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 held	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the young man		order	then	past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Trajectory
2	look	might	man	order not said here			at Tiidu; closely property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme order=Attribute
3	do	past	man					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	smile	past	the old man					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold out	past	the young man not said here	Tiidu's hand				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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