The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 11
There he landed, and when he had walked on for some distance he met an old man with a long white beard.
Who acts: lad · What happens: land, walk, meet · To what, where: old man
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 landed | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walked | cc |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 walked | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | aux |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 landed | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 distance | case |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 distance | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 distance | det |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 distance | acl:relcl |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 beard | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 beard | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beard | amod |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beard | amod |
| 23 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | lad | there | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · perfect | lad | on some distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on distance=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | lad | a old man | with a long white beard | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with beard=Instrument |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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