The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 119
When he had walked some distance he met a man with a tolerably good horse.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: walk, meet · To what, where: distance, man
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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 | 8 met | advcl |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 13 | tolerably | tolerably | ADV | _ | 14 good | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horse | amod |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | Halvor | some distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Halvor | a man | with a good horse | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with horse=Instrument |
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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