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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 74

And the man who was standing by made answer:

Who acts: man · What happens: stand, make

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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

ccdetnsubjauxacl:relclcaseamodoblpunctrootAndCCONJtheDETmanNOUNwhoPRONwasAUXstandingVERBbyADPmadeVERBanswerNOUN:PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 mancc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 mandet
3manmanNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4whowhoPRONPronType=Rel6 standingnsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 standingaux
6standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 manacl:relcl
7bybyADP_9 answercase
8mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 answeramod
9answeranswerNOUNNumber=Sing6 standingobl
10::PUNCT_3 manpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1standpast · progressivethe manby made answervn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by answer=Location
2makeparticiplevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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