The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 83

It was a strange place indeed, for he lived in a bank in the middle of the wild forest, and the lad saw there no other person than his master.

Who acts: bargain, lad · What happens: be, live, see · To what, where: strange place, bank, other person

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bargain, lad), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 place	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 place	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 lived	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 place	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bank	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bank	det
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 forest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 forest	amod
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 middle	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 saw	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lad	det
24	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lived	conj
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 saw	advmod
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 person	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 person	amod
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saw	obj
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 master	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 master	nmod:poss
32	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 person	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bargain	a strange place		indeed property	tree rules
2	live	past	lad		a bank	in the middle of the wild forest	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bank=Location
3	see	past	the lad	no other person	there	than lad's master	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus

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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