The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 14

The young man then went on his journey; and he had not gone far when he espied an old man with white locks herding a flock of swine; and he gaed up to him and asked whose swine these were, when the man answered:

Who acts: young man, man, white locks · What happens: go, not go, espy, herd, ga up, ask · To what, where: journey, old man, flock, Etin, swine

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. 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, man, white locks), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 journey	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 journey	nmod:poss
8	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gone	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 gone	advmod
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 went	conj
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 gone	advmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 espied	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 espied	nsubj
18	espied	espy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	advcl
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 espied	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 locks	case
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 locks	amod
24	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 man	nmod
25	herding	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 locks	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 flock	det
27	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 herding	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 swine	case
29	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flock	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 gaed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gaed	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gaed	nsubj
33	gaed	ga	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 gaed	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gaed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 asked	cc
38	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gaed	conj
39	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	40 swine	nmod:poss
40	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 asked	obj
41	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 asked	ccomp
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 answered	cop
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 answered	punct
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 answered	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 man	det
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 answered	nsubj
47	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 these	acl:relcl
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the young man			man's journey	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location
2	not go	past · perfect	man					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	espy	past	man	a old man				with white locks	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	herd	gerund	white locks not said here	a flock of swine					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flock=Patient
5	ga up	past	man		Etin				tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here	swine					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swine=Recipient
7	is	past	the man					answer property	tree rules
8	journey		man						nom journey «act transitive»: 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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