The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 33

All this time the young man was riding through the world, and when the seven years and seven months were over he came back to the town where the princess lived--only a few days before the wedding.

Who acts: young man, man, princess · What happens: ride, come back, live · To what, where: world, town

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. 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, princess), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det:predet
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 riding	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 riding	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 riding	aux
8	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 riding	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 over	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 years	det
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 over	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 months	cc
19	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 months	nummod
20	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 years	conj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 over	cop
22	over	over	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 riding	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 town	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 town	det
28	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 lived	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lived	nsubj
32	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 town	acl:relcl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 days	punct
34	only	only	ADV	_	37 days	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 days	det
36	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 days	amod
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 town	appos
38	before	before	ADP	_	40 wedding	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wedding	det
40	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 days	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 riding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	ride	past · progressive	the young man	the world	time	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through world=Trajectory
2	come back	past	man	the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
3	live	past	the princess			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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