The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 36
Then appeared a strange man with a long grey beard, with a leather bag hanging from his girdle.
Who acts: leather bag · What happens: appear, hang · To what, where: strange man, girdle
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leather bag), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 beard | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beard | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beard | amod |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beard | amod |
| 10 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bag | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bag | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bag | det |
| 14 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bag | compound |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obl |
| 16 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 bag | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 girdle | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hanging | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a strange man | then | with a long grey beard; with a leather bag | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang | gerund | a leather bag not said here | man's girdle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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