The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 3

When he had traveled about for several days, he came to a giant’s house, and hired himself to the giant as a servant.

Who acts: king · What happens: travel, come, hire · To what, where: giant house, king

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 traveled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 traveled	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 traveled	aux
4	traveled	travel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 traveled	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 traveled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 traveled	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 house	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 giant	case
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hired	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hired	cc
19	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 hired	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 giant	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 giant	det
23	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hired	xcomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 servant	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 servant	det
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 giant	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 traveled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · perfect	king			day	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	king		a giant house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
3	hire	past	king not said here	king			giant property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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