The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 87
He hadn’t gone very far when he saw a most extraordinary looking man coming towards him.
Who acts: Prince, extraordinary looking man · What happens: not go, see, look, come · To what, where: extraordinary looking man
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince, extraordinary looking 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 extraordinary | advmod |
| 12 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 man | acl |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 coming | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | Prince | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Prince | a extraordinary looking man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | come | gerund | a extraordinary looking man not said here | towards Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location |
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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