English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 26

And he went along, and along, and along, and still further along, till he came to the horse-herd of the King of Elfland feeding his horses.

Who acts: Childe · What happens: go along, come, feed · To what, where: horse herd, horses

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe), 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	_	3 went	cc
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	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 along	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 along	cc
7	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 along	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 along	cc
10	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 along	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 along	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 along	advmod
14	further	further	ADV	_	15 along	advmod
15	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 herd	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 herd	det
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 herd	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 horse	punct
24	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 King	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 herd	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Elfland	case
29	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 King	nmod
30	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 came	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 horses	nmod:poss
32	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 feeding	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go along	past	Childe			along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Childe		the horse herd of the King of Elfland		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herd=Initial_Location
3	feed	gerund	Childe not said here	Childe's horses			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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