The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 13

So he walked on with his servants, and when they had gone two miles they saw a man sitting on a tree, holding one of his nostrils and blowing out of the other.

Who acts: man, servant · What happens: walk on, go, see, sit, hold, blow out · To what, where: two miles, man, tree, one, other

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, servant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 servants	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 servants	nmod:poss
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gone	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 gone	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 walked	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 miles	nummod
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 miles	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 man	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 holding	punct
25	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sitting	advcl
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 holding	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 nostrils	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nostrils	nmod:poss
29	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 blowing	cc
31	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 holding	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 other	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 other	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 other	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 blowing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	man			with man's servants	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	servant	two miles			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme
3	see	past	servant	a man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	sit	gerund	a man not said here		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
5	hold	gerund	a man not said here	one of man's nostrils			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	blow out	gerund	a man not said here	the other			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent other=Patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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