The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 60
And he walked, and he walked, and he walked, till he had gone a great way, and there he met a giant.
Who acts: man · What happens: walk, go, meet · To what, where: great way, giant
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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 walked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gone | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 gone | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 walked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 met | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 met | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 met | expl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 met | nsubj |
| 24 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 giant | det |
| 26 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 met | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | man | a great way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 5 | meet | past | man | a giant | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-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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