The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 106

Quickly he saw his old home; yes, it was still there, but it had a strange look.

Who acts: man, home · What happens: see, be, have · To what, where: old home, strange look

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, home), 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	Quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 home	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 home	amod
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 there	punct
8	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 there	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yes	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 there	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 there	cop
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 there	advmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 look	det
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 look	amod
20	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	man	man's old home		quickly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus
2	is	past	home		still	there property	tree rules
3	have	past	home	a strange look			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

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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