The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 43

‘There is; and I am Arthur’s porter every first day of January,’ answered a man coming out to him.

Who acts: porter, I, man · What happens: be, answer, come out · To what, where: porter, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answered	ccomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 porter	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 porter	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 porter	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 porter	cop
8	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 porter	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Arthur	case
10	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 porter	obl:unmarked
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 January	case
15	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	obj
21	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 man	acl
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 coming	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 coming	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	Arthur's porter			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	I	Arthur's porter			day		tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past			a man				tree rules
4	come out	gerund	a man not said here		porter			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 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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