The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 34

With these words he continued his way, and very soon met the third knave, who said to him, ‘God bless you, sir; are you by any chance coming from the market?’

Who acts: person, third knave, God, you, chance · What happens: continue, meet, say, bless, be, come · To what, where: way, third knave, person, you, market · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (person, third knave, God, 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 continued	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 continued	nsubj
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 met	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 met	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 met	advmod
12	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 continued	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knave	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 knave	amod
15	knave	knave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 met	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 knave	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bless	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 bless	punct
23	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bless	nsubj
24	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 bless	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sir	punct
27	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bless	vocative
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 chance	punct
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 chance	cop
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 chance	nsubj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 chance	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 chance	det
33	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	obl
34	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 chance	acl
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 market	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 market	det
37	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coming	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	person	person's way			with this words	tree rules
2	meet	past	person not said here	the third knave			soon property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knave=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the third knave		person			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	bless	infinitive	God	you			sir vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	is	present	you				by any chance	tree rules
6	come	gerund	any chance not said here			the market		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from market=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 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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