The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 24
After a few hundred yards he met the second confederate, who addressed him, ‘Good day, dear sir, where are you coming from?’
Who acts: Rubbish, second confederate, you · What happens: meet, address, come · To what, where: second confederate, Rubbish
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Rubbish, second confederate, you), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 yards | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 yards | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yards | amod |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 yards | nummod |
| 5 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 met | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 confederate | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 confederate | amod |
| 10 | confederate | confederate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 addressed | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 addressed | nsubj |
| 13 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 confederate | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 addressed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 17 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 addressed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sir | punct |
| 20 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sir | amod |
| 21 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 coming | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 coming | advmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 coming | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 coming | nsubj |
| 26 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sir | acl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 coming | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Rubbish | the second confederate | after a few hundred yards | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confederate=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | address | past | the second confederate | Rubbish | day | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 3 | come | present · progressive | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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