The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 95

So he walked, and he walked, and he walked, until he met the giant, and he asked, ‘Have two young men, making for yonder mountain, passed this way?’

Who acts: cry · What happens: walk, meet, ask, have, make, pass · To what, where: giant, two young men, way · 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 (cry), 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	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	until	until	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	_	21 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Have	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Have	punct
24	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 asked	ccomp
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 men	nummod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 men	amod
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Have	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 making	punct
29	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 Have	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 mountain	case
31	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	32 mountain	advmod
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 making	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 passed	punct
34	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 asked	ccomp
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 way	det
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 passed	obj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 passed	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	cry			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	cry			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	past	cry			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	cry	the giant		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	cry			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	present		two young men		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
7	make	gerund			for mountain	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for mountain=Asset
8	pass	participle		this way		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

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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