The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 70

When the younger had walked for some time he caught sight of his brother a short distance in front of him, and called to him and bade him to stop.

Who acts: boy · What happens: walk, catch, call, bade, stop, sight · To what, where: sight, boy, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 walked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 younger	det
3	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 walked	advcl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	aux
5	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl:relcl
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 brother	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sight	nmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 distance	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 distance	amod
17	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 distance	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 front	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 called	cc
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 walked	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bade	cc
28	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 called	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bade	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 stop	mark
31	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bade	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect				time	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	boy	sight of boy's brother			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent sight=Beneficiary distance=Theme
3	call	participle			boy		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	bade	past		boy			tree rules
5	stop	to-infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	sight			boy's brother			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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