The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 71
The young man thanked him for his counsel, and walked, and walked, and walked, till he reached the mountain.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: thank, walk, reach · To what, where: giant, mountain
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 (young man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | nsubj |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 counsel | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 8 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walked | cc |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 walked | cc |
| 17 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 walked | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 walked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the young man | giant | for man's counsel | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for counsel=Attribute | |||
| 2 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | reach | past | man | the mountain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: 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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