The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 20

An old man clothed in skins, and holding a staff in his hand, stood in the doorway; and he said to the young chief who was beginning to tell his story, ‘I was waiting for you, wherefore you have come I know.

Who acts: old man, way, young chief, I, you · What happens: clothe, hold, stand, say, begin, tell · To what, where: old man, staff, hand, doorway, young chief, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, way, young chief, I), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	nsubj
4	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 skins	case
6	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clothed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stood	cc
9	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 stood	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 staff	det
11	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holding	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holding	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 holding	punct
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 doorway	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 doorway	det
19	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stood	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 chief	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chief	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chief	amod
27	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 beginning	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 beginning	aux
30	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 chief	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 tell	mark
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 beginning	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 story	nmod:poss
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tell	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 waiting	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 waiting	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 waiting	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 waiting	aux
39	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 said	advcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 waiting	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 come	punct
43	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	46 come	advmod
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 come	nsubj
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 come	aux
46	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 said	conj
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 know	nsubj
48	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 come	ccomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	clothe	participle		a old man not said here			in skins	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in skin=Theme
2	hold	gerund	a old man not said here	a staff		way's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent staff=Theme in hand=Location
3	stand	past	a old man			the doorway		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	way		the young chief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to chief=Recipient
5	begin	past · progressive	the young chief					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the young chief not said here	way's story				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
7	wait	past · progressive	I				for you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	present · perfect	you				wherefore property	tree rules
9	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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