The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 114

But the buyer had not got far on his way before the youth took his own form again, and when the man reached home Jack was already sitting on the bench by the stove.

Who acts: buyer, youth, man, Jack · What happens: not get, take, reach, sit, form · To what, where: way, 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 (buyer, youth, man, Jack), 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	_	6 got	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 buyer	det
3	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 got	advmod
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 got	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 took	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 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 took	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 took	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sitting	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sitting	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 reached	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	nsubj
24	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sitting	advcl
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 reached	advmod
26	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 sitting	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sitting	aux
28	already	already	ADV	_	29 sitting	advmod
29	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 took	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 bench	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bench	det
32	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sitting	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 stove	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stove	det
35	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sitting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	past · perfect	the buyer		buyer's way		far property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on way=Source
2	take	past	the youth	buyer's own form		again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
3	reach	past	the man				home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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		buyer					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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