The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 103

On their way they came to a small cottage standing quite by itself in a wood; and before the door stood an old, old man, who accosted the brothers saying, ‘Hullo, you young fellows!

Who acts: spirits, small cottage, old old man, you · What happens: come, stand, accost, say, fellow · To what, where: way, wood, old old man, door, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, small cottage, old old man, you), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 cottage	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cottage	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cottage	amod
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cottage	acl
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 standing	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 itself	case
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 standing	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 standing	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stood	cc
19	before	before	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 old	punct
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 accosted	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 accosted	nsubj
30	accosted	accost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 brothers	det
32	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 accosted	obj
33	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 stood	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fellows	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 fellows	punct
36	Hullo	hullo	INTJ	_	40 fellows	discourse
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Hullo	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 fellows	nsubj
39	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fellows	amod
40	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 saying	obl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	spirits = spirit		spirits's way	to a small cottage	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location
2	stand	gerund	a small cottage not said here		a wood	by cottage	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=Location
3	stand	past	spirits = spirit not said here	a old old man	the door		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme before door=Destination
4	accost	past	a old old man	the brothers			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	gerund	spirits = spirit not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	fellow		you				tree rules

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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