The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 52

Hardly had he arrived there, than the three gentlemen who had got his mule perceived him, and coming up to him said: ‘Welcome, Mr. Simon, what brings you here; are you on the look out for a bargain?’

Who acts: Simon, three gentlemen · What happens: arrive out, get, perceive, come up, say, bring · To what, where: look, mule, Simon, you · 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 (Simon, three gentlemen), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 arrived	advmod
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 arrived	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gentlemen	punct
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 gentlemen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gentlemen	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 gentlemen	nummod
10	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 perceived	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 got	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	aux
13	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 gentlemen	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mule	nmod:poss
15	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obj
16	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 perceived	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
20	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 said	ccomp
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 coming	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 coming	obl
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 brings	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 brings	punct
27	Welcome	welcome	INTJ	_	33 brings	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Welcome	punct
29	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Simon	nmod:desc
30	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 brings	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 brings	punct
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 brings	nsubj
33	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 brings	obj
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 brings	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 you	punct
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 you	cop
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 look	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 look	det
41	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
42	out	out	ADP	_	4 arrived	compound:prt
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 bargain	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 bargain	det
45	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive out	past	Simon			the look; there	for a bargain; hardly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past · perfect	the three gentlemen	Simon's mule				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mule=Stimulus
3	perceive	past	the three gentlemen	Simon				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	come up	gerund			Simon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	Simon not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	bring	present	Simon Mr.		you	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
7	is a	present	Simon not said here	you				tree rules

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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