The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 112

With his falcon on his wrist, and his greyhound and cat behind him, the young man walked a long way, inquiring of everyone he met whether they had seen his enemy the ogre.

Who acts: young man, procession, greyhound · What happens: walk, inquire, meet, see · To what, where: long way, enemy

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. 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, procession, greyhound), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 falcon	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 falcon	nmod:poss
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walked	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 wrist	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wrist	nmod:poss
6	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falcon	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 greyhound	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 greyhound	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 greyhound	nmod:poss
10	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falcon	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cat	cc
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 greyhound	conj
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 greyhound	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 falcon	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walked	nsubj
19	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walked	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 inquiring	punct
24	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 walked	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 everyone	case
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 inquiring	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 met	nsubj
28	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 everyone	acl:relcl
29	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	32 seen	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 met	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 enemy	nmod:poss
34	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ogre	det
36	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the young man	a long way	with procession's falcon on procession's wrist and procession's greyhound behind procession and cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
2	inquire speech: other	gerund	the young man not said here		of everyone	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of everyone=Recipient
3	meet	past	procession			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past · perfect	greyhound	procession's enemy		tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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