The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 10

Before he had gone very far he met a woman carrying a child, which was crying from hunger.

Who acts: prince, woman, child · What happens: go, meet, carry, cry · To what, where: woman, child, hunger

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, woman, child), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 met	advcl
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
11	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 woman	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carrying	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crying	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 crying	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 crying	aux
17	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 child	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 hunger	case
19	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crying	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	prince			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	prince	a woman			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent
3	carry	gerund	a woman not said here	a child			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past · progressive	a child		hunger		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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