The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 79

As he went along he met a man, who asked him where he was going.

Who acts: lad, man · What happens: go along, meet, ask, go · To what, where: man, lad

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	advcl
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 going	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asked	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go along	past	lad			along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	lad	a man			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	a man		lad		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	go	past · progressive	lad				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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