The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 38
The young man rode a long way without meeting a single creature, but at last he saw a youth in the distance about the same age as himself, and he spurred his horse till he came up with the stranger, who stopped and asked:
Who acts: young man, man, stranger · What happens: ride, meet, see, spur, come up, stop · To what, where: long way, single creature, youth, last, horse
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 meeting | mark |
| 9 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rode | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creature | amod |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meeting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 distance | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 distance | det |
| 23 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 age | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 age | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 age | amod |
| 27 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 distance | nmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 himself | case |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 age | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 spurred | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 spurred | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 spurred | nsubj |
| 33 | spurred | spur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 horse | nmod:poss |
| 35 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 spurred | obj |
| 36 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 came | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 spurred | advcl |
| 39 | up | up | ADV | _ | 38 came | advmod |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 stranger | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 stranger | det |
| 42 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 stopped | punct |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 stopped | nsubj |
| 45 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 stranger | acl:relcl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 asked | cc |
| 47 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 stopped | conj |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the young man | a long way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | gerund | the young man not said here | a single creature | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | man | a youth | last | in the distance about the same age as man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | spur | past | man | man's horse | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come up | past | man | with the stranger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stop | past | the stranger | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | the stranger not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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