The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 74
Meanwhile the young man walked briskly along, till he came up with two other men, who were disputing over a table-cloth.
Who acts: young man, man, two other men · What happens: walk, come up, dispute
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, two other men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2176): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | briskly | briskly | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 men | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 men | nummod |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 disputing | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 disputing | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 disputing | aux |
| 20 | disputing | dispute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 men | acl:relcl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 cloth | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cloth | det |
| 23 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cloth | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 table | punct |
| 25 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 disputing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the young man | along, briskly, meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | man | with two other men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dispute | past · progressive | two other men | over a table cloth | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over cloth=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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