The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 59

Indeed, already he had met with several alarming accidents.

Who acts: King · What happens: meet

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (King), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 met	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct
3	already	already	ADV	_	6 met	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	aux
6	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 accidents	case
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 accidents	amod
9	alarming	alarming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 accidents	amod
10	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 met	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	King					with several alarming accidents; indeed property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with accident=Co-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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