The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 31

When the old man saw them coming in the distance he said to himself: “Here’s luck! a troop of horses coming!

Who acts: old man, horses, man · What happens: see, come, say · To what, where: horses, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, horses, man), 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	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 saw	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 distance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 distance	det
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 ’s	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Here	punct
17	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 ’s	advmod
18	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
19	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’s	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 troop	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 troop	det
22	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’s	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 horses	case
24	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 troop	nmod
25	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 horses	acl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the old man	horses = horse			tree rules
2	come	gerund	horses = horse not said here			in the distance	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location
3	say speech: express	past	man		man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	come in a quote	gerund	horses not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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