The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 7

And besides all this there had once or twice been seen a little old man with a long beard creeping out of the forest, carrying a sack bigger than himself.

Who acts: long beard · What happens: beside, have, see, creep out, carry · To what, where: this, little old man, forest, sack

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long beard), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 besides	cc
2	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 this	det:predet
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 besides	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 besides	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 besides	ccomp
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 had	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 seen	cc
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 seen	advmod
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 had	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 beard	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 beard	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beard	amod
19	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	nmod
20	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 beard	acl
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 forest	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 creeping	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carrying	punct
26	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 seen	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sack	det
28	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carrying	obj
29	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 sack	amod
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 himself	case
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 bigger	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 besides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beside	present		this	there		tree rules
2	have	past				once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	see	participle · passive		a little old man		with a long beard; twice property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: man=Stimulus
4	creep out	gerund	a long beard not said here	the forest			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location forest=Theme
5	carry	gerund		a sack			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=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 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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