The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 16

Then the young man gaed on a bit farther, and came to another very old man herding goats; and when he asked whose goats they were, the answer was:

Who acts: young man, old man, man, answer · What happens: ga, come, herd, ask, be · To what, where: young man, farther, goats

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, old man, man, answer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
5	gaed	ga	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 man	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 farther	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 farther	obl:unmarked
9	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 gaed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 man	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 man	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 old	advmod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	herding	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 man	acl
19	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 herding	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 asked	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	parataxis
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 goats	nmod:poss
26	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 asked	obj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 were	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 goats	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 answer	det
31	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 was	nsubj
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 asked	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ga	participle		the young man not said here		farther			tree rules
2	come	past	the young man				then	to another old man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location
3	herd	gerund	another old man not said here	goats					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	man		goats				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient
5	be	past	the answer						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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