The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 25

At last one day he came to a hut, in front of which sat a very old man.

Who acts: horse, front · What happens: come, sit · To what, where: front, old man

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, front), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 front	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 front	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 old	advmod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	horse			front	day	to a hut	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	front	a old man					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme

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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