The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 48

At that moment Esben came along, and, seeing their sorrowful looks, said to them, ‘Hello, what’s the matter with you?’

Who acts: Esben · What happens: come along, see, say · To what, where: sorrowful looks, Esben · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
4	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 looks	nmod:poss
12	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looks	amod
13	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seeing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seeing	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Hello	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Hello	punct
20	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	15 said	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ’s	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 ’s	nsubj
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Hello	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 matter	det
25	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 ’s	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come along	past	Esben			moment	along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	gerund		Esben's sorrowful looks				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Esben not said here		Esben			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Topic to they=Recipient

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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