The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 63

After they had travelled a little further they met a man who had torn up half the forest, and was carrying all the trees on his shoulders.

Who acts: trees, man · What happens: travell, meet, tear up, carry · To what, where: man, forest, trees, shoulders

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 (trees, 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 travelled	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 travelled	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	aux
4	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 met	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 further	obl
7	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 travelled	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 met	nsubj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 torn	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 torn	aux
14	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 man	acl:relcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 torn	compound:prt
16	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	18 forest	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 torn	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carrying	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carrying	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carrying	aux
22	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 met	advcl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 trees	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trees	det
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carrying	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 shoulders	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoulders	nmod:poss
28	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carrying	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travell	past · perfect	trees = tree			far property	tree rules
2	meet	past	trees = tree	a man			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
3	tear up	past · perfect	a man	half forest			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	past · progressive	trees = tree not said here	all trees	man's shoulders		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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 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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