The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 20

He had only gone a few steps when he met Aveline, who had taken the shape of an old woman with a heavy bundle of faggots on her back.

Who acts: king, Aveline · What happens: go, meet, take · To what, where: few steps, Aveline, shape

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Aveline), 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	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 steps	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steps	amod
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 met	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 met	nsubj
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
11	Aveline	Aveline	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 met	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 taken	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 Aveline	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shape	det
17	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 woman	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shape	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 bundle	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bundle	det
24	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bundle	amod
25	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 woman	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 faggots	case
27	faggots	faggot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bundle	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 back	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 back	nmod:poss
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 faggots	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	king	a few steps	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
2	meet	past	king	Aveline	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aveline=Co-Agent
3	take	past · perfect	Aveline	the shape of a old woman with a heavy bundle of faggots on Aveline's back	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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