The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 70

And now the youth rode onwards for a long, long time, over hill and dale, over rocky places and morasses, and then Dapplegrim began to listen again, and asked the youth if he heard anything now.

Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim · What happens: ride, begin, listen, ask, hear · To what, where: hill, youth, anything

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Dapplegrim), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 rode	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rode	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	5 rode	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hill	punct
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 hill	case
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dale	cc
17	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hill	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 places	punct
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 places	case
20	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 places	amod
21	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rode	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 morasses	cc
23	morasses	morass	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 places	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 began	advmod
27	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 listen	mark
30	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 listen	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 asked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 asked	cc
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 youth	det
36	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 asked	obj
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 heard	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 heard	nsubj
39	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 asked	advcl
40	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 heard	obj
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 heard	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the youth		hill and dale	now; time	over rocky places and morasses; onwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Trajectory
2	begin	past	Dapplegrim			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	listen	to-infinitive	Dapplegrim not said here			again		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	the youth not said here	the youth				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient
5	hear a condition, not said to happen	past	youth	anything		now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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