The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 22

And as the last one passed by him, he saw she had one feather missing from her tail.

Who acts: boy, business · What happens: pass, see, have · To what, where: last one, one feather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, business), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 one	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 one	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	ccomp
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 feather	nummod
15	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feather	amod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 missing	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		the last one not said here	by boy	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location
2	see	past	boy		as the last one	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	past	business	one feather		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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