English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 2
He saw young and old, rich and poor, pretty and plain, and could not meet with one to his mind.
Who acts: man · What happens: see, not meet, mind
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 old | cc |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rich | punct |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 poor | cc |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rich | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pretty | punct |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plain | cc |
| 13 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pretty | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 meet | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 meet | cc |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 meet | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 meet | advmod |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 meet | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mind | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | young property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not meet | could | man not said here | with one to man's mind | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | mind | man | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «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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