The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 48
On the way thither he met another old man, who begged for something to eat.
Who acts: Jack, old man · What happens: meet, beg, eat · To what, where: old man, way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, old 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 4 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 6 met | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 begged | nsubj |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 something | case |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 begged | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 something | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Jack | another old man | the way | thither property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | another old man | for something | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for something=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | another old man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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: «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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