The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 3

When he reached the gate, he found the whole row of carts standing there, unable to get any further for the stone which lay in the gap.

Who acts: he, carts, whole row, stone · What happens: reach, find, stand, get, lie · To what, where: gate, whole row, gap

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, carts, whole row, stone), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 row	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 row	amod
11	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 carts	case
13	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 row	nmod
14	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 carts	acl
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 standing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 unable	punct
17	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 unable	xcomp
20	any	any	ADV	_	21 further	advmod
21	further	further	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 stone	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stone	det
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stone	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 gap	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gap	det
29	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	he	the gate			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme
2	find	past	he	the whole row of carts			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Topic
3	stand	gerund	carts not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	to-infinitive	the whole row of carts not said here			for the stone; further property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for stone=Source
5	lie	past	the stone		the gap		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gap=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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