The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 66

But soon there came past a tall man--oh! twice as tall as father--with a long red beard and a red tunic fastened with a silver girdle, from which hung a silver-handled knife.

What happens: come, fasten, hang, handle · To what, where: red tunic, handled knife

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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 tall	punct
10	oh	oh	INTJ	_	14 tall	discourse
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 oh	punct
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 tall	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 tall	advmod
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 father	case
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tall	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 beard	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 beard	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 beard	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beard	amod
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beard	amod
22	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tunic	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tunic	det
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tunic	amod
26	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beard	conj
27	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 tunic	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 girdle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 girdle	det
30	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 girdle	amod
31	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fastened	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hung	punct
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 hung	nsubj
35	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 knife	det
37	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 handled	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 silver	punct
39	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 knife	amod
40	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hung	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past		there	past a tall man; with a long red beard and a red tunic	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past man=Initial_Location
2	fasten	participle	a red tunic not said here		with a silver girdle	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with girdle=Co-Patient
3	hang	past	a handled knife			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
4	handle	participle				vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: 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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