The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 25

He had not driven far when he met a squirrel, who bowed and said: “Good-morning, godfather! what have you got behind you?”

Who acts: marten, squirrel, you · What happens: not drive, meet, bow, say, get · To what, where: squirrel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marten, squirrel, you), 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 driven	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 driven	advmod
4	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 driven	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 met	advmod
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	4 driven	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 squirrel	det
10	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bowed	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bowed	nsubj
13	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 squirrel	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bowed	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 morning	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 morning	punct
18	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 morning	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Good	punct
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 godfather	punct
22	godfather	godfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 morning	conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 driven	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 got	obj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 got	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 driven	conj
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 got	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not drive	past · perfect	marten		far property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	meet	past	marten	a squirrel		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrel=Co-Agent
3	bow	past	a squirrel			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: ask	past	a squirrel not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	get in a quote	present · perfect	you		behind you	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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