The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 26

When I had reached the other side I found a man had harnessed my bee to a plough, and with his help was sowing millet seed.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: reach, find, harness, sow, help · To what, where: other side, bee, millet seed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 found	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 harnessed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 harnessed	aux
13	harnessed	harness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 found	ccomp
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bee	nmod:poss
15	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 harnessed	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 plough	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plough	det
18	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 harnessed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sowing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sowing	cc
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 help	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 help	nmod:poss
23	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sowing	obl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sowing	aux
25	sowing	sow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 found	advcl
26	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seed	compound
27	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sowing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	I	the other side		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme
2	find	past	I			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	harness	past · perfect	a man	my bee	to a plough	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bee=Patient to plough=Co-Patient
4	sow	past · progressive	I not said here	millet seed	with man's help	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Destination with help=Theme
5	help		man			nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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