The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 92

At last he saw another set of men, who were struggling for the possession of a pair of shoes.

Who acts: man, men · What happens: see, struggle, possess · To what, where: set, last, pair

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 (man, men), 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	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 set	det
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 struggling	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 struggling	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 struggling	aux
12	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 men	acl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 possession	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 possession	det
15	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struggling	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 pair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pair	det
18	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 possession	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 shoes	case
20	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pair	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	man	another set of men	last		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer set=Stimulus
2	struggle	past · progressive	men			for the possession of a pair of shoes	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	possess			a pair of shoes			nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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