The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 83

When he was a little better he rose and walked down a road till he met a grouse, who stopped and asked what was the matter.

Who acts: salmon, grouse · What happens: be, rise, walk down, meet, stop, ask · To what, where: road, grouse, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon, grouse), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 rose	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rose	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 better	obl
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 rose	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walked	cc
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 walked	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	obl
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 met	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 met	nsubj
16	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grouse	det
18	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 met	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stopped	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stopped	nsubj
21	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grouse	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stopped	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 matter	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 matter	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 matter	det
27	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			a little obl; well property	tree rules
2	rise	past	salmon	a road		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk down	past	salmon not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	salmon	a grouse		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grouse=Co-Agent
5	stop	past	a grouse			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	ask speech: ask	past	a grouse not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past		the matter		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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