The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 22

On the very eve of the wedding a man pushing a wheelbarrow arrived at the city gate, and paid toll upon a barrel of nails which it contained, and then made the best of his way to the bride’s dwelling and knocked at the door.

Who acts: man, barrel, best · What happens: push, arrive, pay, contain, make, dwell · To what, where: wheelbarrow, city gate, toll, eve, best

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, barrel, best), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 eve	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eve	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 eve	advmod
4	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wedding	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wedding	det
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eve	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wedding	appos
10	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 man	acl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wheelbarrow	det
12	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pushing	obj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wheelbarrow	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gate	compound
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 paid	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 paid	cc
20	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 barrel	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 barrel	det
24	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 nails	case
26	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 barrel	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 contained	nsubj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 contained	nsubj
29	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 barrel	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 made	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 made	advmod
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 paid	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 best	det
35	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 made	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 way	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 way	nmod:poss
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 best	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 bride	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bride	det
41	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ’s	obl
42	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 made	conj
43	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 ’s	xcomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 knocked	cc
45	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dwelling	conj
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 door	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 door	det
48	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 knocked	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund	a man not said here	a wheelbarrow				vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelbarrow=Theme
2	arrive	participle		a wheelbarrow not said here	the city gate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pay	past		toll	the eve of the wedding		upon a barrel of nails	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toll=Asset
4	contain	past	a barrel of nails					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	make	past		the best		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product
6	dwell	gerund	the best not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	knock	past	the best not said here				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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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