The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 10
He had not gone far, when he fell in with two discharged soldiers.
Who acts: boy · What happens: not go, fall in, discharge
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 fell | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 soldiers | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 soldiers | nummod |
| 13 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 soldiers | amod |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | boy | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall in | past | boy | with two discharged soldiers | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discharge | participle | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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