Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 72

The stranger put one hand into his wallet and drew out of it before their eyes a well-looking middle-aged man, to whom he spoke as follows:

Who acts: stranger · What happens: put, draw out, look, speak, follow · To what, where: one hand, wallet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hand	nummod
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 wallet	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wallet	nmod:poss
8	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drew	cc
10	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 it	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drew	obl
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drew	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 looking	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
20	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 man	amod
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 aged	obl:unmarked
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 middle	punct
23	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drew	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 whom	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 whom	case
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 drew	advcl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spoke	nsubj
29	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 whom	acl:relcl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 follows	mark
31	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 spoke	advcl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the stranger	one hand	stranger's wallet			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	draw out	past	the stranger not said here	wallet		before habits's eyes	a looking aged man obl:unmarked	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	look	gerund					well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other	past	stranger					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	follow	present	stranger not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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