The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 139

There was, too, a well-known gentleman in a yellow summer coat, with a long pipe in his mouth; he was going to see if the reapers had cut the rye.

Who acts: known gentleman, gentleman · What happens: be, know, go, see, cut · To what, where: reapers

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (known gentleman, gentleman), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gentleman	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gentleman	det
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 known	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gentleman	amod
10	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 coat	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coat	det
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coat	amod
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coat	compound
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gentleman	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pipe	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 pipe	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pipe	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pipe	amod
20	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gentleman	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 mouth	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pipe	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	xcomp
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 cut	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 reapers	det
32	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cut	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cut	aux
34	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 see	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rye	det
36	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cut	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a known gentleman in a yellow summer coat		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	past · progressive	gentleman				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	cut a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the reapers			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary rye=Product

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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