The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 47

One day the old man was sitting in front of his cottage, as he was very fond of doing, when he saw flying towards him a little sparrow, followed by a big black raven.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: sit, be, do, see, fly, follow · To what, where: front, little sparrow

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cottage	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cottage	nmod:poss
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fond	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 fond	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fond	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fond	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 fond	advmod
18	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sitting	parataxis
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 doing	mark
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 fond	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 saw	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	parataxis
25	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 saw	xcomp
26	towards	towards	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flying	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sparrow	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sparrow	amod
30	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flying	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 followed	punct
32	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 saw	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	37 raven	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 raven	det
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 raven	amod
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 raven	amod
37	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 followed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the old man		front of man's cottage	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
2	is	past	man				fond property	tree rules
3	do	gerund	man not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fly	gerund	man not said here	a little sparrow			towards man	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
6	follow	participle	man not said here				by a big black raven	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by raven=Location

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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