The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 11
The slave soon returned, followed by the pedlar, a short stout man with a swarthy face, and dressed in very ragged clothes.
Who acts: slave, pedlar · What happens: return, follow, dress · To what, where: slave, ragged clothes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, pedlar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 slave | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slave | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 pedlar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pedlar | det |
| 9 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 13 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pedlar | appos |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 17 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dressed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dressed | cc |
| 21 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 followed | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 clothes | case |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 ragged | advmod |
| 24 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 clothes | amod |
| 25 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 dressed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the slave not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle · passive | the pedlar | the slave | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | ragged clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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