The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 91

Off they went again, and before they had gone far they met a man striding towards them whose steps were so long that while one foot was on the north of the island the other was right down in the south.

Who acts: trees, man, one foot · What happens: go, meet, stride, be · To what, where: man, steps, north, south

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, man, one foot), 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	Off	off	ADP	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	advcl
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	conj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 met	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 met	nsubj
13	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	obj
16	striding	stride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 man	acl
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 striding	obl
19	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	20 steps	nmod:poss
20	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 striding	obj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 north	mark
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 north	mark
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 foot	nummod
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 north	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 north	cop
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 north	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 north	det
31	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 long	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 island	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 island	det
34	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 north	nmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 island	amod
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 down	cop
38	right	right	ADV	_	39 down	advmod
39	down	down	ADV	_	31 north	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 south	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 south	det
42	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 down	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	trees = tree			again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	trees = tree					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past	trees = tree	a man			far property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
4	stride	gerund	a man not said here	steps			towards trees = tree	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory
5	is	past					long property	tree rules
6	is	past	one foot		the north		of the island	tree rules
7	is	past	one foot not said here		the south		down, right property	tree rules

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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