The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 78

And he walked, and he walked, and he walked, till he met the giant, and asked him if he had seen a young man travelling towards the mountain.

Who acts: noise, young man · What happens: walk, meet, ask, see, travel · To what, where: giant, noise, young man, 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 (noise, young 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	_	15 met	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 met	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 walked	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 met	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
20	asked	ask	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 asked	iobj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 seen	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seen	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 asked	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	obj
29	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 man	acl
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 mountain	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mountain	det
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 travelling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	walk	past	noise				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	noise				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	past	noise				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	noise	the giant			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	noise not said here		noise		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	noise	a young man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
7	travel	gerund	a young man not said here			the mountain	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=Destination

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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