The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 32

The Rev. Mr. Baring-Gould saw several fairies when he was a boy, and was travelling in the land of the Troubadours.

Who acts: Gould · What happens: see, be, travel · To what, where: several fairies, boy, land

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gould), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Gould	det
2	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mr.	nmod:desc
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Gould	nmod:desc
4	Baring	Baring	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mr.	flat
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Gould	punct
6	Gould	Gould	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fairies	amod
9	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 boy	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 boy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 boy	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 travelling	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 travelling	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 travelling	aux
18	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 travelling	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Troubadours	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Troubadours	det
24	Troubadours	Troubadour	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 land	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	the Gould Mr. Rev.	several fairies		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Gould	a boy		tree rules
3	travel	past · progressive	the Gould Mr. Rev. not said here		the land of the Troubadours	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Trajectory

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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