The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 122

And so it had also gone with one, on the night before a certain day, when a merry young smith came wandering to the town where the king’s castle stood.

Who acts: payment, merry young smith, castle · What happens: go, come, wonder, stand

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (payment, merry young smith, castle), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 gone	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
13	before	before	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 came	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 smith	det
20	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 smith	amod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 smith	amod
22	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 day	acl:relcl
24	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 came	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 town	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 town	det
27	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wandering	obl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 stood	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 castle	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 king	case
32	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 town	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	payment	day; night	with one	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with one=Beneficiary
2	come	past	a merry young smith			tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	a merry young smith not said here		to the town	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	stand	past	the king's castle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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