The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 123

Wounded to death, he crept back through the village, and no man knew the old, old man to be the strong handsome youth who had run down the street an hour before.

Who acts: man, strong handsome youth · What happens: wound, creep back, know, be, run down · To what, where: village, old old man, strong handsome youth, street

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, strong handsome youth), 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	Wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crept	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 death	case
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wounded	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wounded	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crept	nsubj
6	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 crept	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crept	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 old	punct
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	26 youth	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 youth	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youth	det
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 youth	amod
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 youth	amod
26	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 run	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 run	aux
29	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 youth	acl:relcl
30	down	down	ADP	_	32 street	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 street	det
32	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obl
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hour	det
34	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obl:unmarked
35	before	before	ADV	_	29 run	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wound	participle	man not said here				to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	creep back	past	man		the village			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through village=Trajectory
3	know	past	no man	the old old man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	is a	to-infinitive		the strong handsome youth				tree rules
5	run down	past · perfect	the strong handsome youth	the street		hour	before property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory

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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