The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 3

He strode angrily into the forest, and there he saw a man standing who had uprooted six trees as if they were straws.

Who acts: King, man, trees · What happens: stride, see, stand, uproot, be · To what, where: forest, man, six trees

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 (King, man, trees), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 strode	nsubj
2	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	2 strode	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strode	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 saw	expl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 strode	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 man	acl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 uprooted	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 uprooted	aux
17	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 standing	xcomp
18	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 trees	nummod
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 uprooted	obj
20	as	as	ADP	_	24 straws	case
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 straws	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 straws	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 straws	cop
24	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 uprooted	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 strode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stride	past	King		the forest	angrily property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination
2	see	past	King	a man	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	a man not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	uproot	past · perfect		six trees			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	trees = tree			as straws	tree rules

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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