The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 15

At that the man entered the gate, and beholding a strange youth, he said to him: 'What is your trade, boy?'

Who acts: man · What happens: enter, behold, say, be · To what, where: gate, strange youth, husband, trade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 At	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entered	nsubj
5	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beholding	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 beholding	cc
10	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 entered	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 youth	det
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 youth	amod
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beholding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entered	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 trade	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 What	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 trade	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 trade	cop
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 trade	nmod:poss
24	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 boy	punct
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trade	conj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 trade	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 trade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	enter	past	the man	the gate		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination
2	behold	gerund	the man not said here	a strange youth		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	man		husband	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	is a	present		your trade and boy		tree rules

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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