The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 22
He found the beggar already there with a bag in each hand, and a third slung round his neck.
Who acts: Bernez · What happens: find, sling · To what, where: beggar, hand, third
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bernez), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beggar | det |
| 4 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 found | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bag | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 hand | det |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slung | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slung | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 third | det |
| 16 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slung | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | slung | sling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 found | conj |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 neck | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slung | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Bernez | the beggar | each hand; there | with a bag | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Topic | ||
| 2 | sling | participle · passive | a third | round Bernez's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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