The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 110

On the road he met a little old man who stopped and said to him, ‘What have you got there, my fine fellow?’

Who acts: rest, little old man, you · What happens: meet, stop, say, get · To what, where: little old man, road, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, little old man, you), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 road	det
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stopped	nsubj
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stopped	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 got	obj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 got	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 met	conj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 got	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fellow	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fellow	nmod:poss
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fellow	amod
26	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	parataxis
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 fellow	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	meet	past	rest	a little old man		the road	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
2	stop	past	a little old man				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	a little old man not said here		rest		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	get	present · perfect	you			there	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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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