The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 41

This was a handsome young man who was coming down the path; and when he had almost reached the tree he pulled aside a rock and disappeared behind it.

Who acts: This, handsome young man, man · What happens: be, come down, reach, pull, disappear · To what, where: handsome young man, path, tree, rock

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 (This, handsome young man, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 coming	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 coming	aux
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 man	acl:relcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	12 path	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 reached	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 reached	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 reached	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reached	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 reached	aux
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 reached	advmod
19	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 man	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reached	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pulled	nsubj
23	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tree	acl:relcl
24	aside	aside	ADV	_	23 pulled	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rock	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pulled	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 disappeared	cc
28	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pulled	conj
29	behind	behind	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 disappeared	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a handsome young man			tree rules
2	come down	past · progressive	a handsome young man	the path			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=Theme
3	reach	past · perfect	man	the tree		almost property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
4	pull	past	man	a rock		aside property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme
5	disappear	past	man not said here		tree		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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