The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 80

As he sat there and took his bite, a man came riding past him.

Who acts: way, man · What happens: sit, take, come, ride, bite · To what, where: bite

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 (way, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 sat	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bite	nmod:poss
8	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
13	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 came	advcl
14	past	past	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 riding	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	way		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	way not said here	way's bite			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme
3	come	past	a man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride	gerund	a man not said here			past way	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past he=Trajectory
5	bite		way				nom bite «state 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 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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