The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 62

One day she saw lying near the mouth of her hole a handful of cooked rice which some pilgrim must have let fall when he was stopping to eat his dinner.

Who acts: best, pilgrim, father · What happens: see, lie, cook, let, fall, stop · To what, where: mouth, pilgrim, dinner

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best, pilgrim, father), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouth	det
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hole	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hole	nmod:poss
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouth	nmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 handful	det
13	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hole	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 rice	case
15	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 rice	amod
16	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handful	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 let	obj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 pilgrim	det
19	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	nsubj:pass
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	aux
22	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 rice	acl:relcl
23	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 stopping	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stopping	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stopping	aux
27	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 let	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stopping	xcomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dinner	nmod:poss
31	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eat	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	best = good			day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund	best = good not said here		the mouth of best's hole		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near mouth=Location
3	cook	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	let	must · perfect · passive		some pilgrim			tree rules
5	fall	infinitive	some pilgrim not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stop	past · progressive	father				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	eat	to-infinitive	father not said here	father's dinner			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=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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