The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 54
Soon after he came up with a young man, who stopped and asked him, “Where are you going, my fine fellow?”
Who acts: son, young man · What happens: come up, stop, ask, go · To what, where: son, fine fellow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son, young 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 18 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 going | advmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fellow | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fellow | amod |
| 25 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 going | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | son | with a young man; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | a young man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | son not said here | son | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | son | my fine fellow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «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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