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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

advmodnsubjpunctccnsubjconjpunctccnsubjconjmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctccconjobjmarkxcompiobjmarknsubjauxadvclnummodamodnsubjccompdetobjacldetamodobjpunctrootSoADVshePRONwalkedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONwalkedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONwalkedVERBtillSCONJshePRONcameVERBtoADPtheDETgiantADJ,PUNCTandCCONJprayedVERBhimPRONtoPARTtellVERBherPRONifSCONJhePRONhadAUXseenVERBthreeNUMyoungADJmenNOUNpassVERBthatDETwayNOUNseekingVERBtheDETdistantADJmountainNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 walkedadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 walkednsubj
3walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_7 walkedpunct
5andandCCONJ_7 walkedcc
6sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 walkednsubj
7walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
8,,PUNCT_11 walkedpunct
9andandCCONJ_11 walkedcc
10sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 walkednsubj
11walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
12tilltillSCONJ_14 camemark
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 camensubj
14camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 walkedadvcl
15totoADP_17 giantcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 giantdet
17giantgiantADJDegree=Pos14 cameobl
18,,PUNCT_20 prayedpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 prayedcc
20prayedprayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 prayedobj
22totoPART_23 tellmark
23telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf20 prayedxcomp
24hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 telliobj
25ififSCONJ_28 seenmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 seennsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 seenaux
28seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part23 telladvcl
29threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 mennummod
30youngyoungADJDegree=Pos31 menamod
31menmanNOUNNumber=Plur32 passnsubj
32passpassVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 seenccomp
33thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem34 waydet
34waywayNOUNNumber=Sing32 passobj
35seekingseekVERBVerbForm=Ger34 wayacl
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 mountaindet
37distantdistantADJDegree=Pos38 mountainamod
38mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing35 seekingobj
39..PUNCT_3 walkedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1walkpastsistervn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2walkpastsistervn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3walkpastsistervn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4comepastsisterto the giantvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to giant=Initial_Location
5praypastsister not said heremantree rules
6tell speech: assertto-infinitivesister not said heresistervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7see a condition, not said to happenpast · perfectmanvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8passpresentthree young menthat wayvn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
9seekgerundthat way not said herethe distant mountainvn 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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