The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 92

He was walking along by his horse’s side when there appeared before him an old man of serene countenance, dressed in green and carrying a staff, who resembled Khizr.

Who acts: prince, staff · What happens: walk, appear, dress, carry, resemble · To what, where: old man, green, staff, Khizr

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, staff), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walking	aux
3	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 walking	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 side	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 horse	case
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walking	obl
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 appeared	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 appeared	expl
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walking	advcl
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 appeared	obl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 countenance	case
19	serene	serene	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 countenance	amod
20	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dressed	punct
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 man	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 green	case
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dressed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carrying	cc
26	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 dressed	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 staff	det
28	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carrying	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 resembled	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 resembled	nsubj
31	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 staff	acl:relcl
32	Khizr	Khizr	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 resembled	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	prince				by prince's horse's side; along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
2	appear	past	prince not said here	a old man of serene countenance	there	before prince		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
3	dress	participle		a old man of serene countenance not said here	green			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	carry	gerund		a staff				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme
5	resemble	past	a staff	Khizr				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 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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