The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 25
When everything was complete he looked out of the door, and saw the old man coming from the forest carrying a large bundle of wood.
Who acts: everything, peasant, old man · What happens: be, look out, see, come, carry · To what, where: door, old man, forest, large bundle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, peasant, old 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 complete | mark |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 complete | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 complete | cop |
| 4 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 complete | acl:relcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 complete | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 man | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coming | obl |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 coming | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bundle | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bundle | amod |
| 24 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bundle | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 complete | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look out | past | peasant | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | everything not said here | the old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the old man not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | carry | gerund | the old man not said here | a large bundle of wood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
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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