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The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 2

He strolled about the country as ragged as a colt, till he met with a wagoner who was going to London, and who gave him leave to walk all the way by the side of his wagon without paying anything for his passage.

Who acts: Dick, wagoner · What happens: stroll, meet, go, give, leave, walk · To what, where: London, Dick, way, anything

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, wagoner), 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

nsubjcasedetobladvmodamodcasedetoblpunctmarknsubjconjcasedetoblnsubjauxacl:relclcaseoblpunctccnsubjconjiobjxcompmarkxcompdet:predetdetobl:unmarkedcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodmarkadvclobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootHePRONstrolledVERBaboutADPtheDETcountryNOUNasADVraggedADJasADPaDETcoltNOUN,PUNCTtillSCONJhePRONmetVERBwithADPaDETwagonerNOUNwhoPRONwasAUXgoingVERBtoADPLondonPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJwhoPRONgaveVERBhimPRONleaveVERBtoPARTwalkVERBallDETtheDETwayNOUNbyADPtheDETsideNOUNofADPhisPRONwagonNOUNwithoutSCONJpayingVERBanythingPRONforADPhisPRONpassageNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 strollednsubj
2strolledstrollVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aboutaboutADP_5 countrycase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 countrydet
5countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing2 strolledobl
6asasADV_7 raggedadvmod
7raggedraggedADJDegree=Pos5 countryamod
8asasADP_10 coltcase
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 coltdet
10coltcoltNOUNNumber=Sing7 raggedobl
11,,PUNCT_14 metpunct
12tilltillSCONJ_14 metmark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 metnsubj
14metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 strolledconj
15withwithADP_17 wagonercase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 wagonerdet
17wagonerwagonerNOUNNumber=Sing14 metobl
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel20 goingnsubj
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 goingaux
20goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 wagoneracl:relcl
21totoADP_22 Londoncase
22LondonLondonPROPNNumber=Sing20 goingobl
23,,PUNCT_26 gavepunct
24andandCCONJ_26 gavecc
25whowhoPRONPronType=Rel26 gavensubj
26gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 strolledconj
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 gaveiobj
28leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf26 gavexcomp
29totoPART_30 walkmark
30walkwalkVERBVerbForm=Inf28 leavexcomp
31allallDETPronType=Tot33 waydet:predet
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 waydet
33waywayNOUNNumber=Sing30 walkobl:unmarked
34bybyADP_36 sidecase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 sidedet
36sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing30 walkobl
37ofofADP_39 wagoncase
38hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 wagonnmod:poss
39wagonwagonNOUNNumber=Sing36 sidenmod
40withoutwithoutSCONJ_41 payingmark
41payingpayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 walkadvcl
42anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind41 payingobj
43forforADP_45 passagecase
44hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs45 passagenmod:poss
45passagepassageNOUNNumber=Sing41 payingobl
46..PUNCT_2 strolledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1strollpastDickabout the countryvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Trajectory
2meetpastDickwith a wagonervn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wagoner=Co-Agent
3gopast · progressivea wagonerLondonvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to london=Initial_Location
4givepastDicktree rules
5leaveinfinitivetree rules
6walkto-infinitiveall wayby the side of Dick's wagonvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
7paygerundanythingfor Dick's passagevn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent anything=Asset for passage=Theme
8passDicknom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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