More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 102

Before they had gone very far, a handsome young man, splendidly dressed, rode up and stopped to ask the way to the castle where the King was staying; and when he found that they too were going thither, he got off his horse and walked beside them along the road.

Who acts: geese, King · What happens: go, dress, ride up, stop, ask, stay · To what, where: handsome young man, way, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese, King), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dressed	punct
13	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	14 dressed	advmod
14	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 gone	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rode	punct
16	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dressed	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 rode	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stopped	cc
19	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rode	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 ask	mark
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stopped	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ask	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 castle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 castle	det
26	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ask	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 staying	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 staying	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 staying	aux
31	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 castle	acl:relcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 got	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 got	cc
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 found	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 found	nsubj
36	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 got	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 going	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 going	nsubj
39	too	too	ADV	_	41 going	advmod
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 going	aux
41	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 found	ccomp
42	thither	thither	ADV	_	41 going	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 found	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 got	nsubj
45	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
46	off	off	ADP	_	45 got	compound:prt
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 horse	nmod:poss
48	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 got	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 walked	cc
50	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 got	conj
51	beside	beside	ADP	_	52 them	case
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 walked	obl
53	along	along	ADP	_	55 road	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 road	det
55	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 walked	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	geese = goose	a handsome young man	far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dress	participle	geese = goose not said here		splendidly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ride up	past	geese = goose not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	past	geese = goose not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	geese = goose not said here	the way	to the castle	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
6	stay	past · progressive	the King			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	find	past	king			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	go	past · progressive	geese = goose		thither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	get off	past	king	king's horse		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
10	walk	past	king not said here		beside geese = goose; along the road	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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