The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 99

When he had walked on for a long time, he met for the third time 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: 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	12 met	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 time	case
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 met	nsubj
12	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 met	obl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hag	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hag	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 old	punct
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hag	amod
21	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 backed	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 crook	punct
23	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hag	amod
24	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hag	conj
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 one	advmod
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 eye	nummod
30	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	MINNIKIN		time	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	MINNIKIN		time	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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