The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 10

‘We are not ill met, then,’ said the man who was driving, ‘for I am the kind of man who can do that, and I am just looking out for such an apprentice.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: not meet, say, drive, be, do, look out · To what, where: We, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), 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	_	6 met	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 met	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 met	advmod
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 met	amod
6	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 then	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 met	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 driving	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 driving	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 driving	aux
16	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 kind	case
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 kind	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 kind	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 driving	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 do	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 man	acl:relcl
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 do	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looking	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 looking	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 looking	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 looking	aux
34	just	just	ADV	_	35 looking	advmod
35	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 looking	compound:prt
37	for	for	ADP	_	40 apprentice	case
38	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	40 apprentice	det:predet
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 apprentice	det
40	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looking	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	present · passive		We	then		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drive	past · progressive	the man				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I			for the kind; of man	tree rules
5	do	can	man	man			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
6	look out	present · progressive	I			for such apprentice	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for apprentice=Theme

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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