The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 12

The two went out together, and after walking for about half an hour they old man stopped. '

Who acts: two, tears · What happens: go out, walk, stop

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, tears), 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 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	together	together	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stopped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stopped	cc
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 walking	mark
9	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stopped	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 hour	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 half	advmod
12	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	14 hour	det:predet
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hour	det
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stopped	nsubj
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stopped	nsubj
18	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the two		out, together property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	gerund	tears = tear not said here	hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	past	tears = tear			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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