The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 92

Then Minnikin went onwards, and when he had wandered on for some time he again met an old, old crook-backed hag, who had only one eye.

Who acts: Minnikin, old old backed hag · What happens: go, wander, meet, back, have · To what, where: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wandered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wandered	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 wandered	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wandered	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wandered	aux
10	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wandered	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 met	nsubj
16	again	again	ADV	_	17 met	advmod
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl:relcl
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hag	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hag	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hag	amod
22	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 backed	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 crook	punct
24	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hag	amod
25	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hag	conj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 one	advmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 eye	nummod
31	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Minnikin		then	onwards property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wander	past · perfect	MINNIKIN		time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past	MINNIKIN	a old old backed hag	again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Co-Agent
4	back	participle					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	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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