The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 23

Just as Martin was entering the town he met a rough-looking peasant who was dragging a cat after him by a string which was fastened round the poor beast’s neck.

Who acts: Martin, looking peasant · What happens: enter, meet, look, drag, fasten · To what, where: town, looking peasant, cat, string

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 (Martin, looking peasant), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 entering	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 entering	mark
3	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 entering	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entering	aux
5	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entering	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 met	nsubj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 town	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 peasant	det
11	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looking	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 rough	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 peasant	amod
14	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dragging	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dragging	aux
17	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 peasant	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cat	det
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dragging	obj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dragging	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 string	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 string	det
24	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dragging	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fastened	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fastened	aux:pass
27	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 string	acl:relcl
28	round	round	ADP	_	33 neck	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beast	det
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beast	amod
31	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 neck	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 beast	case
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fastened	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 entering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past · progressive	Martin	the town			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination
2	meet	past	Martin	a looking peasant			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peasant=Co-Agent
3	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	drag	past · progressive	a looking peasant	a cat	after Martin	by a string	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
5	fasten	past · passive		a string		round the poor beast's neck	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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