The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 41

Not long after the clerk came that way, and was much surprised to see the parson following the footsteps of three girls.

Who acts: parson · What happens: come, be, see, follow · To what, where: way, parson, footsteps

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parson), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 clerk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clerk	det
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surprised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 surprised	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 surprised	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 surprised	advmod
13	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 surprised	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 parson	det
17	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 parson	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 footsteps	det
20	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 following	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 girls	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 girls	nummod
23	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 footsteps	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		that way	after the clerk	long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past				surprised property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive		the parson			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parson=Stimulus
4	follow	gerund	the parson not said here	the footsteps of three girls			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footstep=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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