English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 38

So he went away on his journey; and after he had travelled a far way, he met with an old woman that asked him if he would give her a bit of his johnny-cake.

Who acts: water, old woman · What happens: go away, travell, meet, ask, give, journey · To what, where: journey, far way, water, bit, woman

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, old woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
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	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 journey	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 journey	nmod:poss
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 met	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 met	cc
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 travelled	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 travelled	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 travelled	aux
13	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 met	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 met	nsubj
19	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 woman	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 met	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 asked	nsubj
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 woman	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 asked	iobj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 give	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 asked	ccomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bit	det
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 cake	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 cake	nmod:poss
36	johnny	johnny	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cake	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 johnny	punct
38	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	past	water			water's journey	away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location
2	travell	past · perfect	water	a far way				tree rules
3	meet	past	water				with a old woman	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with woman=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	a old woman		water			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give a condition, not said to happen	would	water	a bit of water's johnny cake	woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bit=Theme
6	journey		water					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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: «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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