The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 38

Otto met them; he had a basket in his hand and said: ‘Look, here is something that an old man has just left for you.’

Who acts: Otto, old man · What happens: meet, have, say, look, be, leave · To what, where: wolves, basket, hand, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Otto, old 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	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 met	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 basket	det
8	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 basket	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct
16	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 here	punct
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 Look	advmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 something	cop
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 Look	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 left	obj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 left	advmod
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 something	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 left	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Otto	wolves = wolf			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
2	have	past	Otto	a basket	Otto's hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Otto not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	infinitive			here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a	present		something			tree rules
6	leave	present · perfect	a old man			for you	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme for you=Recipient

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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