The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 44

So he gaed away on his journey; and after he had traveled a far way he met wi’ an auld woman, that asked him if he would give her a bit of his bannock.

Who acts: man, auld woman · What happens: ga away, travel, meet, ask, give, journey · To what, where: journey, far way, wi, man, bit, woman

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 (man, auld woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 gaed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gaed	nsubj
3	gaed	ga	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 gaed	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 journey	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 journey	nmod:poss
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 traveled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 traveled	cc
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 traveled	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 traveled	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 traveled	aux
13	traveled	travel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 gaed	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traveled	obl:unmarked
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 met	nsubj
18	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 way	acl:relcl
19	wi	wi	X	Foreign=Yes	18 met	obj
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 woman	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traveled	obl:agent
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 asked	nsubj
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 woman	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	iobj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 give	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asked	ccomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bit	det
34	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 bannock	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 bannock	nmod:poss
37	bannock	bannock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bit	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gaed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ga away	past	man			man's journey	away property	tree rules
2	travel	past · perfect	man	a far way				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past	man	wi				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wi=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	a auld woman		man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give a condition, not said to happen	would	man	a bit of man's bannock	woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bit=Theme
6	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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