The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 105
So she walked, and she walked, and she walked till she came to the giant, and prayed him to tell her if he had seen three young men pass that way seeking the distant mountain.
Who acts: sister, man, three young men, way · What happens: walk, come, pray, tell, see, pass · To what, where: man, sister, way, distant mountain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, man, three young men, way), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walked | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 giant | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prayed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 prayed | cc |
| 20 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 prayed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 prayed | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 seen | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seen | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 tell | advcl |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 men | nummod |
| 30 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 men | amod |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pass | nsubj |
| 32 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | ccomp |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 way | det |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pass | obj |
| 35 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 way | acl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mountain | det |
| 37 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 mountain | amod |
| 38 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seeking | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | sister | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | sister | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | sister | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | sister | to the giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to giant=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | pray | past | sister not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | sister not said here | sister | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | pass | present | three young men | that way | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | seek | gerund | that way not said here | the distant mountain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |
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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