The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 117

The old man was standing before the door of his hut when the great herd of animals dashed round a corner of the road, with his son and his own cow at their head.

Who acts: old man, great herd · What happens: stand, dash · To what, where: door, corner

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, great herd), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hut	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hut	nmod:poss
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	nmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 dashed	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 herd	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 herd	amod
15	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dashed	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 animals	case
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 herd	nmod
18	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 standing	advcl
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 corner	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 corner	det
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dashed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 road	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 road	det
24	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 corner	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 son	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 son	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 son	nmod:poss
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cow	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cow	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cow	amod
32	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 son	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cow	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the old man			the door of bull's hut		with bull's son and bull's own cow at man's head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location
2	dash	participle	the great herd of animals			a corner of the road			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round corner=Trajectory

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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