The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 17

So the blower got down and went with him, and after a time they saw a man who was standing on one leg, and had unstrapped the other and laid it near him.

Who acts: blower, miles, man · What happens: get down, go, see, stand, unstrap, lay · To what, where: man, one leg, other, leg

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 (blower, miles, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blower	det
3	blower	blower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 standing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	aux
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 man	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 leg	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 leg	nummod
24	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 unstrapped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 unstrapped	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 unstrapped	aux
28	unstrapped	unstrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 saw	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 unstrapped	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 laid	cc
32	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 unstrapped	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	obj
34	near	near	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get down	past	the blower				down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	go	past	the blower not said here				with blower	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
3	see	past	miles = mile	a man		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	stand	past · progressive	a man		one leg			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
5	unstrap	past · perfect	miles = mile not said here	the other				tree rules
6	lay	past	miles = mile not said here	leg			near man	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme near he=Destination

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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