The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 100

After they had gone some way they met a panther, who stopped, and bowing politely, said:

Who acts: shoes, panther · What happens: go, meet, stop, bow, say · To what, where: way, panther · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes, panther), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 said	advcl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl:unmarked
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 panther	det
10	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stopped	nsubj
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 panther	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bowing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bowing	cc
16	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gone	conj
17	politely	politely	ADV	_	16 bowing	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	shoes = shoe	some way		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	shoes = shoe	a panther		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panther=Co-Agent
3	stop	past	a panther			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	bow	gerund	shoes = shoe not said here		politely property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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