The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 2

The boy took the corn and set out, and before he had gone very far he saw a large mill in front of him, with a beardless man standing in the doorway.

Who acts: boy, beardless man · What happens: take, set out, go, see, stand · To what, where: corn, large mill, front, doorway

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, beardless 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corn	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 set	cc
7	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 set	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gone	cc
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	conj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 saw	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mill	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mill	amod
21	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 front	case
23	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mill	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 front	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 man	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 man	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
31	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 man	acl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 doorway	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 doorway	det
34	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 standing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the boy	the corn			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme
2	set out	infinitive	the boy not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past · perfect	boy				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	boy	a large mill	front of man	with a beardless man; far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus
5	stand	gerund	a beardless man not said here		the doorway		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=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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