Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 61

He was just about to enter when the ostler came out, and they met at the door.

Who acts: peasant, ostler, steps · What happens: be, come out, meet · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, ostler, steps), 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	6 enter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enter	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 about	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 enter	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 enter	mark
6	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ostler	det
9	ostler	ostler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enter	advcl
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 met	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 met	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 enter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	peasant		about, enter property	tree rules
2	come out	past	the ostler		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	meet	past	steps = step	the door		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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