The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 26

The wise man was sitting before his door when he came up, and Stan fell on his knees before him.

Who acts: wise man, man, Stan · What happens: sit, come up, fall · To what, where: door, knees

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise man, man, Stan), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 door	nmod:poss
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	advcl
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
15	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 knees	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knees	nmod:poss
19	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fell	obl
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the wise man	man's door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location
2	come up	past	man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	Stan	Stan's knees	before man	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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