The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 158

Then a man entered, of more than ordinary size and of a very fearful appearance; but he was old and had a white beard.

Who acts: man · What happens: enter, be, have · To what, where: more, white beard

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 entered	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 more	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 more	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 entered	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 size	case
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 appearance	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 appearance	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 appearance	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 fearful	advmod
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 appearance	amod
16	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 old	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 old	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 old	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 old	cop
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 entered	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 beard	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beard	amod
26	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	a man	more	then		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Destination
2	is	past	man			old property	tree rules
3	have	past	a man not said here	a white beard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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