The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 2

Now when the old man’s time had come, he stretched himself out on his bed and died.

Who acts: time, man · What happens: come, stretch out, die · To what, where: man, bed

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 come	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 come	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 man	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stretched	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stretched	nsubj
12	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 stretched	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 stretched	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bed	nmod:poss
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stretched	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 died	cc
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stretched	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the old man's time			now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch out	past	man	man	man's bed		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	die	past	man not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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