The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 44

He had got half-way thither, when all at once the same little man stood in front of him and said, ‘Good evening, Christian, where are you going?’

Who acts: Christian, all, you · What happens: get, stand, say, go · To what, where: half way, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian, all, you), 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	3 got	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 way	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 half	punct
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
7	thither	thither	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 stood	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 stood	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 stood	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 front	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 evening	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 evening	punct
26	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 evening	amod
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 going	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Christian	punct
29	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 evening	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 going	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 going	advmod
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 going	aux
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 going	nsubj
34	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 said	ccomp
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 going	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	Christian	half way			thither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2	stand	past	all		front of Christian			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	all not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	present · progressive	you			evening		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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