Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 13

It was a long walk for the little lad; but by and by he came to the city of London.

Who acts: wagon, lad · What happens: be, come · To what, where: long walk, city

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wagon, lad), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 walk	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walk	amod
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 lad	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 city	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 city	det
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 London	case
21	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 city	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	wagon	a long walk				for the little lad	tree rules
2	come	past	lad			the city of London			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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