The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 85

When Minnikin had walked a long way alone, he met an old, old crook-backed hag, who had only one eye.

Who acts: Minnikin, old old backed hag · What happens: walk, meet, back, have · To what, where: long way, old old backed hag, one eye

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 (Minnikin, old old backed hag), 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	_	4 walked	mark
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 walked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	aux
4	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 met	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 way	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hag	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hag	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 old	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hag	amod
16	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 backed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 crook	punct
18	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hag	amod
19	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hag	conj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 one	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 eye	nummod
25	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	Minnikin	a long way	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	MINNIKIN	a old old backed hag	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Co-Agent
3	back	participle			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	a old old backed hag	one eye	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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