The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 36

Some way farther along the road he came upon a man who had never worn any trousers, and who was trying to put on a pair.

Who acts: way · What happens: come, not wear, try, put · To what, where: man, pair

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
3	farther	farther	ADV	_	6 road	advmod
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 worn	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 worn	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 worn	advmod
15	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 man	acl:relcl
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 trousers	det
17	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 worn	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trying	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 trying	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 trying	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 trying	aux
22	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 put	mark
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 trying	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 pair	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pair	det
27	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	some way along the road			upon a man	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location
2	not wear	past · perfect · passive		a man			tree rules
3	try	past · progressive					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	put not said to happen	to-infinitive			a pair		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pair=Destination

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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