The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 42

She returned his greeting, and as he drew near she asked him whence he came and where he was going.

Who acts: girl, traveller · What happens: return, draw, ask, come, go, greet · To what, where: greeting, traveller

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, traveller), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 greeting	nmod:poss
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drew	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drew	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 drew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drew	nsubj
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	conj
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 asked	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drew	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	iobj
14	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 going	cc
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 going	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	girl	traveller's greeting			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
2	draw	past	traveller				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	girl		traveller		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	come	past	traveller			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past · progressive	traveller				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	greet		traveller				nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=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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