English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 48

At last he grew very tired, when he saw a man coming towards him with a good stout stick in his hand.

Who acts: man · What happens: grow, see, come · To what, where: last, man

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 man	acl
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 coming	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 stick	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stick	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stick	amod
19	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stick	compound
20	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coming	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hand	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stick	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	man		last	tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	see	past	man	a man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	a man not said here			towards man; with a good stout stick in man's hand	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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