The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 69

One day an old man went to a stream to dip in a crust of bread which he was going to eat, when a dog came out of the water, snatched the bread from his hand, and ran away.

Who acts: old man, crust, dog · What happens: go, dip, eat, come out, snatch, run away · To what, where: stream, bread, hand

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, crust, dog), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dip	mark
11	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 crust	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 crust	det
14	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dip	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 bread	case
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crust	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 going	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 going	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 crust	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 going	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dog	det
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	parataxis
28	out	out	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 out	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 snatched	punct
33	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 came	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bread	det
35	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 snatched	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 hand	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hand	nmod:poss
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 snatched	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ran	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ran	cc
41	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
42	away	away	ADV	_	41 ran	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a old man		a stream	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location
2	dip	to-infinitive	a old man not said here				in a crust of bread	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crust=Attribute
3	go	past · progressive	a crust of bread					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat	to-infinitive	a crust of bread not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come out	past	a dog				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	snatch	past	a dog not said here	the bread	dog's hand			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from hand=Source
7	run away	past	a old man not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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