The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 73

The old man stopped when he saw this dreadful place, and at first was afraid to go in; but he remembered that, after all, as the proverb says: “It is the unexpected that happens,” and perhaps in the midst of this black spot he might find the child he was seeking.

Who acts: old man, child, proverb, that · What happens: stop, see, be, go in, remember, say · To what, where: dreadful place, that, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. 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, child, proverb, that), 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	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	advcl
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 place	det
9	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 place	amod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 afraid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 afraid	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 first	case
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 afraid	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 afraid	cop
16	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 saw	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 afraid	xcomp
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 remembered	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 remembered	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 remembered	nsubj
23	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	parataxis
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 remembered	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 all	punct
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 remembered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 says	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 says	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 proverb	det
31	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 says	nsubj
32	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 remembered	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 unexpected	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 unexpected	punct
35	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 unexpected	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 unexpected	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 unexpected	det
38	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 says	ccomp
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 happens	nsubj
40	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 unexpected	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 happens	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 unexpected	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 midst	cc
44	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	47 midst	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 midst	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 midst	det
47	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 unexpected	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 spot	case
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 spot	det
50	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 spot	amod
51	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 midst	nmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 find	nsubj
53	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 find	aux
54	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 spot	acl:relcl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 child	det
56	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 find	obj
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 seeking	nsubj
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 seeking	aux
59	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 child	acl:relcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the old man				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	see	past	child	this dreadful place			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
3	is	past	child not said here			afraid property	tree rules
4	go in	to-infinitive	child not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	remember	past	child	that	after all		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	the proverb				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	proverb			unexpected property	tree rules
8	happen in a quote	present	that				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	find	might	child	the child			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
10	seek	past · progressive	child	the child not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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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