The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 6
One day he was sitting disconsolately at a cross road, when a man suddenly appeared before him with three black dogs, each one bigger than the other.
Who acts: fortune, man · What happens: sit, appear · To what, where: cross road
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | disconsolately | disconsolately | ADV | _ | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 9 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 road | compound |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 appeared | advmod |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | parataxis |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 appeared | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 dogs | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 dogs | nummod |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dogs | amod |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 appeared | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bigger | punct |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bigger | nsubj |
| 26 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 other | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 other | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bigger | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | fortune | a cross road | day | disconsolately property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at road=Location | ||
| 2 | appear | past | a man | before fortune | with three black dogs; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=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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