The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 99

He had only eaten a few mouthfuls when an old man badly dressed passed by, and seeing the food, asked if the young man could not spare him a little.

Who acts: king, old man, seeing, young man · What happens: eat, dress, pass by, see, ask, not spare · To what, where: few mouthfuls, food, king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, old man, seeing, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouthfuls	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouthfuls	amod
7	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 dressed	mark
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dressed	nsubj
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 dressed	advmod
13	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eaten	advcl
14	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 dressed	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	14 passed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asked	cc
18	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 asked	csubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 food	det
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seeing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seeing	punct
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 spare	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spare	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 spare	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 spare	advmod
29	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 asked	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spare	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 little	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 spare	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	king	a few mouthfuls		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient
2	dress	participle	a old man		badly property	tree rules
3	pass by	participle	a old man not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	gerund		the food		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask	past	seeing			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not spare a condition, not said to happen	could	the young man	king	a little obl:unmarked	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset

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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