The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 62

'Mother, I have seen such a wonderful man,' said a little boy one day, as he entered a hut in Lapland, bearing in his arms the bundle of sticks he had been sent out to gather.

Who acts: I, Mother, man · What happens: see, say, enter, bear, send out, gather · To what, where: wonderful man, hut, Lapland, arms, bundle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Mother, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Mother	acl:relcl
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 man	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 day	nummod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boy	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 entered	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 entered	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 entered	nsubj
22	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hut	det
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entered	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Lapland	case
26	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 entered	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bearing	punct
28	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 entered	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 arms	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 arms	nmod:poss
31	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bearing	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bundle	det
33	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sent	nsubj:pass
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 sticks	case
35	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bundle	nmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sent	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sent	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 sent	aux:pass
39	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 arms	acl:relcl
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 sent	compound:prt
41	to	to	PART	_	42 gather	mark
42	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 sent	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	I	such wonderful man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	enter	past	man	a hut	Lapland	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
4	bear	gerund	man not said here		man's arms	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	send out	past · perfect · passive		the bundle of sticks		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	gather	to-infinitive				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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