The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 53

For a long while he travelled on and on, and nobody seemed to want him; but one day he met an old man, and being a polite youth, he took off his hat and said: “Good morning,” in a pleasant voice.

Who acts: Peter, nobody · What happens: travel, seem, want, meet, be, take off · To what, where: Peter, old man, polite youth, hat, pleasant voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, nobody), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 long	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 travelled	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 travelled	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 travelled	nsubj
6	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 travelled	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 on	cc
9	on	on	ADV	_	7 on	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 travelled	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 want	mark
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 want	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 met	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 met	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 met	obl:unmarked
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 met	nsubj
22	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 travelled	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 met	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 youth	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 youth	cc
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 youth	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 youth	det
30	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 youth	amod
31	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 met	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 took	nsubj
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 travelled	conj
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 took	compound:prt
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hat	nmod:poss
37	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 took	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 morning	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 morning	punct
42	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 morning	amod
43	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 morning	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 morning	punct
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 voice	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 voice	det
48	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 voice	amod
49	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Peter				for a long	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	nobody					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	want	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	Peter				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	meet	past	Peter	a old man		day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
5	is a	gerund		a polite youth				tree rules
6	take off	past	Peter	Peter's hat				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	Peter not said here		a pleasant voice			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner

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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