The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 9

A little further along he saw a baker who was standing at the door, eating one of his loaves.

Who acts: work, baker · What happens: see, stand, eat · To what, where: baker, door, one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, baker), 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	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 further	advmod
3	further	further	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 saw	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baker	det
8	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 standing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 standing	aux
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 baker	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eating	punct
16	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 standing	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 eating	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 loaves	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 loaves	nmod:poss
20	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	work	a baker		further property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baker=Stimulus
2	stand	past · progressive	a baker		the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
3	eat	gerund	a baker not said here	one of work's loaves			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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