The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 31

Just as the old man was leaving the house the little dog under the table began to bark, saying:

Who acts: old man, leaving · What happens: leave, begin, bark, say · To what, where: house, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). 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, leaving), 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	_	7 leaving	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 leaving	mark
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 leaving	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leaving	aux
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 began	csubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaving	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaving	obj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaving	obl
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bark	mark
18	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 bark	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	leave	past · progressive	the old man	the house	the table	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Theme dog=Attribute
2	begin	past	leaving			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bark	to-infinitive	leaving not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	leaving not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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