The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 213

There came by an old, old shepherd, with snow-white hair and a long staff in his hand.

What happens: come

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 came	expl
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	8 shepherd	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shepherd	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shepherd	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shepherd	amod
8	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hair	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 hair	case
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hair	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 snow	punct
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hair	amod
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 staff	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 staff	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 staff	amod
18	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hair	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 staff	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				there		by a old old shepherd; with snow white hair and a long staff in Klaus's hand	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shepherd=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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