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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 54

He walked on quickly down the track that led to the hut, when, before him, he saw his wife with his little son on her back.

Who acts: crow, track · What happens: walk on, lead, see · To what, where: track, wife, back

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, track), 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

nsubjadvmodadvmodcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctadvmodpunctcaseoblpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjcasenmod:possamodoblcasenmod:possoblpunctrootHePRONwalkedVERBonADVquicklyADVdownADPtheDETtrackNOUNthatPRONledVERBtoADPtheDEThutNOUN,PUNCTwhenADV,PUNCTbeforeADPhimPRON,PUNCThePRONsawVERBhisPRONwifeNOUNwithADPhisPRONlittleADJsonNOUNonADPherPRONbackNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 walkednsubj
2walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ononADV_2 walkedadvmod
4quicklyquicklyADV_2 walkedadvmod
5downdownADP_7 trackcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 trackdet
7tracktrackNOUNNumber=Sing2 walkedobl
8thatthatPRONPronType=Rel9 lednsubj
9ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 trackacl:relcl
10totoADP_12 hutcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 hutdet
12huthutNOUNNumber=Sing9 ledobl
13,,PUNCT_14 whenpunct
14whenwhenADVPronType=Int12 hutadvmod
15,,PUNCT_17 himpunct
16beforebeforeADP_17 himcase
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 walkedobl
18,,PUNCT_20 sawpunct
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 sawnsubj
20sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 walkedparataxis
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 wifenmod:poss
22wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing20 sawobj
23withwithADP_26 soncase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 sonnmod:poss
25littlelittleADJDegree=Pos26 sonamod
26sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing20 sawobl
27ononADP_29 backcase
28herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 backnmod:poss
29backbackNOUNNumber=Sing20 sawobl
30..PUNCT_2 walkedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1walk onpastcrowthe trackbefore manquickly propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down track=Trajectory
2leadpastthe trackto the hutvn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to hut=Patient
3seepastcrowcrow's wifewoman's backwith crow's little sonvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus

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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