The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 57

‘Did you see no one pass by on horseback, reverend father?’ he asked the monk.

Who acts: you, father, horseback · What happens: see, ask, pass · To what, where: one pass, monk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father, horseback), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 pass	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	compound
7	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 horseback	case
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 horseback	case
10	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 father	punct
12	reverend	reverend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	compound
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 monk	det
19	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	you	no one pass and reverend father		by horseback	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pass=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	father		the monk		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent monk=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pass		horseback				nom pass «act transitive»: by=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 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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