The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 134

The old man was still on the road, and he came up and said to Ciccu, ‘What have you got in that basket?’

Who acts: old man, man, you · What happens: be, come up, say, get · To what, where: road, Ciccu, basket · 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 (old man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 road	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 road	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 road	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 road	parataxis
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Ciccu	case
17	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 got	obj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 got	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 basket	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 basket	det
26	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 road	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	the old man		the road	still	tree rules
2	come up	past	man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	man not said here	Ciccu			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to ciccu=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	get	present · perfect	you		that basket		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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