The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 62

The youth came up to him and said, “Which way are you going, my fine fellow?”

Who acts: youth, you · What happens: come up, say, go · To what, where: son, way · 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 (youth, you), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
11	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl:unmarked
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fellow	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fellow	nmod:poss
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fellow	amod
19	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 fellow	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come up	past	the youth		son	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: ask	past	the youth not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	you	which way		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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