The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 32

By-and-by they reached a man who was grinding stones to powder in his hands, as if they had been nuts.

Who acts: historians, man · What happens: reach, grind, powder, be · To what, where: man, stones, hands

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 (historians, 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reached	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grinding	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grinding	aux
12	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 man	acl:relcl
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grinding	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 powder	mark
15	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 grinding	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hands	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 powder	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 nuts	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	25 nuts	case
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 nuts	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nuts	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 nuts	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 nuts	cop
25	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 powder	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	historians = historian	a man			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	grind	past · progressive	a man	stones			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	powder	to-infinitive	a man not said here		man's hands		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	historians = historian			as nuts	tree rules

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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