The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 117

When the old man saw him he said he had not seen a single man for three hundred years, and was very much surprised to see anyone come to him now.

Who acts: old man, Irishman, anyone · What happens: see, say, not see, be, come · To what, where: Irishman, single man, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. 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, Irishman, anyone), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 seen	advmod
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 years	case
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hundred	compound
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 surprised	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 surprised	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 surprised	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	25 surprised	advmod
25	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 surprised	advcl
28	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 see	obj
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	obl
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 come	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the old man	Irishman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Irishman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not see	past · perfect	Irishman	a single man		year		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	is	past					surprised property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive		anyone				tree rules
6	come	infinitive	anyone not said here		Irishman	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_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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