The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 46
At one place upon the road he met a handsome young man who seemed by his downcast air to be in some great trouble.
Who acts: Peter, handsome young man · What happens: meet, seem, be · To what, where: handsome young man, one place, great trouble
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 (Peter, handsome young 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 place | nummod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 10 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 air | nmod:poss |
| 17 | downcast | downcast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 air | amod |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seemed | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 trouble | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 trouble | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 trouble | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 trouble | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trouble | amod |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Peter | a handsome young man | one place upon the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a handsome young man | by Peter's downcast air | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | a handsome young man not said here | some great trouble | 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: «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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