The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 27
When he had gone a little way from the castle he met the fox, and they continued on their journey together.
Who acts: prince, shoes · What happens: go, meet, continue, journey · To what, where: little way, castle, fox, journey
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, shoes), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nmod |
| 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 | 10 castle | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 continued | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 continued | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 continued | nsubj |
| 18 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 journey | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | obl |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 continued | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | prince | a little way | the castle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | past | prince | the fox | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | shoes = shoe | shoes's journey | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | journey | shoes = shoe | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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