The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 6
As he was walking down the road, he saw a man coming towards him, carrying a cage made of twigs.
Who acts: man · What happens: walk down, see, come, carry, make · To what, where: road, man, cage
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 walking | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | aux |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walking | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 man | acl |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 coming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carrying | punct |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cage | det |
| 19 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 cage | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 twigs | case |
| 22 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk down | past · progressive | man | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | a man not said here | towards man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | man not said here | a cage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | a cage not said here | of twigs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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