The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 21

Here he found out a very old man who had a wife 120 years old, or rather more.

Who acts: prince, old man · What happens: find out, have · To what, where: old man, wife

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, old 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 found	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wife	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 more	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 more	cc
18	rather	rather	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 found	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past	prince	a old man		here			tree rules
2	have	past	a old man	a wife					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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