The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 4

He went out into the world to seek service somewhere, and as he was walking between some mounds he met a man, who asked him where he was going.

Who acts: man · What happens: go out, seek, walk, meet, ask, go · To what, where: world, service, mounds, man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 seek	mark
8	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
9	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seek	obj
10	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 seek	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 met	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 met	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 walking	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 walking	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 walking	aux
16	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 met	advcl
17	between	between	ADP	_	19 mounds	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 mounds	det
19	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walking	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 met	nsubj
21	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 met	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 asked	nsubj
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 man	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	iobj
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 going	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 going	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 asked	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	man			the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seek	to-infinitive	man not said here	service			somewhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
3	walk	past · progressive	man			some mounds		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between mound=Trajectory
4	meet	past	man	a man				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	a man		man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	go	past · progressive	man					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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