The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 9

When the boy reached the second mill, and saw a second beardless man sitting there, he did not stop, and walked on till he came to a third mill.

Who acts: boy, second beardless man · What happens: reach, see, sit, not stop, walk, come · To what, where: second mill, second beardless man, third mill

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, second 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mill	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 mill	amod
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 man	amod
13	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 man	acl
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 sitting	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stop	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stop	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stop	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 stop	advmod
21	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sitting	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 walked	cc
24	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
25	on	on	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 walked	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 mill	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mill	det
31	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 mill	amod
32	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past	the boy	the second mill		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mill=Theme
2	see	past		a second beardless man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a second beardless man not said here		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not stop	past · do-support	boy			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	walk	past				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	boy		a third mill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_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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