The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 24

He walked on for many miles, seeing nothing that surprised him, but in an open space of the wood he was astonished at finding a man combing trees as another man would comb flax.

Who acts: Shepherd, man · What happens: walk, see, surprise, be, find, comb · To what, where: nothing, Shepherd, open space, man, trees, flax

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd, 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	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 miles	case
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 miles	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 miles	amod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seeing	punct
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 seeing	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 surprised	nsubj
11	surprised	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 surprised	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 astonished	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 astonished	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 space	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 space	det
17	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 space	amod
18	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 astonished	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 wood	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 space	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 astonished	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 astonished	cop
24	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walked	conj
25	at	at	SCONJ	_	26 finding	mark
26	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 astonished	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 finding	obj
29	combing	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 man	acl
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 combing	obj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 comb	mark
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 comb	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 comb	aux
35	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 combing	advcl
36	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 comb	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Shepherd			on many miles	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mile=Trajectory
2	see	gerund	Shepherd not said here	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	surprise	past		Shepherd			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	is	past	Shepherd		a open space of the wood	astonished property	tree rules
5	find	gerund	Shepherd not said here	a man			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
6	comb	gerund	a man not said here	trees			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
7	comb	would	another man	flax			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Patient

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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