The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 79

However, at last we stopped at a large farm, and the farmer and his wife ran out as soon as they saw the Fairy, and helped us to dismount.

Who acts: we, farmer, us · What happens: stop, run out, see, help, dismount · To what, where: last, Fairy, us

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, farmer, us), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 stopped	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stopped	obl
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 farm	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 farm	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 farm	amod
10	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farmer	det
14	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wife	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 farmer	conj
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 ran	compound:prt
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 ran	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 saw	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 soon	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fairy	det
26	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 helped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 helped	cc
29	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 helped	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 dismount	mark
32	dismount	dismount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 helped	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	we		last	at a large farm; however property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	run out	past	the farmer and steed's wife			soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	farmer	the Fairy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
4	help	past	we not said here	us			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	dismount	to-infinitive	us not said here				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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