The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 15

When the old man came to take away the plate which had contained the Crab’s dinner, he found it full of gold, and as the same thing happened every day he soon became very fond of the Crab.

Who acts: old man, man, same thing, thing · What happens: come, take away, contain, find, happen, become · To what, where: plate, dinner, day

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). 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, man, same thing, thing), 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	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
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 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	away	away	ADP	_	7 take	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plate	det
10	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 contained	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 contained	aux
13	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 plate	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Crab	det
15	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 dinner	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Crab	case
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 contained	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	obj
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 found	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 gold	case
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 happened	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 happened	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 happened	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 happened	nsubj
31	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	conj
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 happened	obl:unmarked
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 became	nsubj
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 became	advmod
36	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 day	acl:relcl
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 fond	advmod
38	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 became	xcomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 Crab	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Crab	det
41	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 fond	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old man				tree rules
2	take away	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the plate			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme
3	contain	past · perfect · passive		the plate			tree rules
4	find	past	man	dinner		full property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	happen	past	the same thing		day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	become	past	thing	every day not said here		fond, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient day=Result

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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