The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 167

The old man drew near him in order to watch closely, and his white beard hung right down.

Who acts: old man, white beard · What happens: draw, watch, hang · To what, where: order

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 (old man, white beard), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drew	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 order	case
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 watch	mark
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drew	advcl
11	closely	closely	ADV	_	10 watch	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hung	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beard	nmod:poss
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beard	amod
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	nsubj
17	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
18	right	right	ADV	_	19 down	advmod
19	down	down	ADV	_	17 hung	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the old man	order	near monster	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination
2	watch	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		closely property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	hang	past	man's white beard		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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