The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 89
After he had been walking for some time he met an old white-bearded man who was coming along the footpath.
Who acts: couple, old bearded man · What happens: walk, meet, come · To what, where: old bearded man, footpath
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, old bearded 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 walking | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bearded | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 white | punct |
| 15 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | aux |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | along | along | ADP | _ | 22 footpath | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 footpath | det |
| 22 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coming | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect · progressive | couple | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | couple | a old bearded man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | a old bearded man | the footpath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along footpath=Initial_Location |
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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