The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 54
After they had gone some distance they saw a man standing in a thick fog, which he was trying to put into a sack.
Who acts: people, man · What happens: go, see, stand, try, put · To what, where: distance, man, thick fog, sack
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 distance | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 man | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fog | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fog | det |
| 14 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fog | amod |
| 15 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trying | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 trying | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 trying | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 trying | aux |
| 20 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 fog | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 put | mark |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 trying | xcomp |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 sack | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sack | det |
| 25 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | people | some distance | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | people | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a man not said here | a thick fog | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fog=Location | ||||
| 4 | try | past · progressive | man | a thick fog | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | a sack | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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