The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 104
While he was eating and drinking, there came by an old man, yet more wretched than the first, and begged for a few mouthfuls.
Who acts: beggar, old man · What happens: eat, drink, come by, beg
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 (beggar, old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:1854): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 eating | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drinking | cc |
| 6 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 eating | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 came | expl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADV | _ | 9 came | compound:prt |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wretched | punct |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 wretched | advmod |
| 17 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 first | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 first | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 wretched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 begged | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 begged | cc |
| 23 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 mouthfuls | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mouthfuls | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 mouthfuls | amod |
| 27 | mouthfuls | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 begged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | beggar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | beggar not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come by | past | a old man | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | a old man not said here | for a few mouthfuls | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mouthful=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/104/