The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 71

A few days later, the pedlar having moved on, two men appeared in the village inquiring who it was who had threatened to ill-treat and to murder an innocent pedlar.

Who acts: pedlar, village · What happens: have, move on, appear, inquire, threaten, murder · To what, where: village, innocent pedlar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pedlar, village), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 appeared	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pedlar	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pedlar	det
7	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	nsubj
8	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 pedlar	acl
9	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 having	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 moved	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 men	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 men	nummod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 appeared	nsubj
14	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 village	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	obl
18	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 village	acl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 threatened	nsubj:pass
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 threatened	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 threatened	aux:pass
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 threatened	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 threatened	aux
24	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 inquiring	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 treat	case
26	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 treat	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 ill	punct
28	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threatened	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 murder	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 murder	mark
31	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 appeared	conj
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 pedlar	det
33	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pedlar	amod
34	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 murder	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	the pedlar not said here				tree rules
2	move on	participle	the pedlar not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	appear	past	the pedlar		the village	late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
4	inquire speech: other	gerund	the village not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	threaten	past · perfect · passive				to ill treat	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	murder	to-infinitive	the pedlar not said here	a innocent pedlar			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedlar=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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