The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 109

But the horse dealer had not got very far with Jack before he resumed his own form again, and when the man got home he was sitting on the bench by the stove.

Who acts: horse dealer, Jack, man · What happens: not get, resume, get, sit, form · To what, where: own form, bench

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 (horse dealer, Jack, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dealer	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dealer	compound
4	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 got	advmod
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 got	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 Jack	case
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 resumed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 resumed	nsubj
14	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 form	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 form	amod
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 resumed	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 resumed	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sitting	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sitting	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 got	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sitting	advcl
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 got	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sitting	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sitting	aux
28	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 resumed	advcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 bench	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bench	det
31	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sitting	obl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 stove	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stove	det
34	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sitting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	past · perfect	the horse dealer				with Jack; far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	resume	past	Jack	Jack's own form		again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality
3	get	past	the man				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	sit	past · progressive	Jack		the bench		by the stove	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
5	form		Jack					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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