The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 2

When the white man saw him he humbled himself, and said: 'O Chief! take pity on me, for I have no home!

Who acts: white man, Butou, I · What happens: see, humble, say, take, have · To what, where: Butou, pity, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white man, Butou, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 humbled	nsubj
8	humbled	humble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 humbled	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
15	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	16 Chief	case
16	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Chief	punct
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 take	parataxis
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 home	det
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the white man	Butou		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	humble	past	Butou	Butou		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	infinitive		pity	of Chief; on me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on i=Destination
5	have	present	I	no home		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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 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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