The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 5

At the same moment as he put his foot outside the church door, he saw standing before him a little man, who said, ‘Good evening, Christian, where are you going?’

Who acts: thought, little man, you · What happens: put, see, stand, say, go · To what, where: foot, church door, little man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, little 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 put	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moment	acl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 foot	nmod:poss
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
10	outside	outside	ADP	_	13 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moment	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 man	csubj
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 standing	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 man	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 evening	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 evening	punct
28	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 evening	amod
29	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 going	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Christian	punct
31	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 evening	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 going	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 going	advmod
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 going	nsubj
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 said	ccomp
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 going	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	past	thought	thought's foot	the church door		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme outside door=Destination
2	see	past	thought	a little man		moment	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund				before thought	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	a little man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	present · progressive	you			evening	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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