The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 203

The gypsy had often seen the young Prince pass by, with his gun on his shoulder, when he was going after crows.

Who acts: simplicity, gun · What happens: see, go, pass · To what, where: gypsy

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simplicity, gun), 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	2 gypsy	det
2	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pass	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pass	amod
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pass	compound
9	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	14 gun	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gun	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 gun	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gun	nmod:poss
14	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pass	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 shoulder	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoulder	nmod:poss
17	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gun	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 going	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 going	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pass	acl
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 crows	case
24	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 going	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect · passive		the gypsy		often property	tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	simplicity		after crows		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pass		simplicity's gun on simplicity's shoulder				nom pass «act transitive»: by=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 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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