English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 41

He went on a great way farther, and then he came up to the old man herding the sheep; and when he asked whose sheep these were, the answer was:

Who acts: water, old man · What happens: go, come up, herd, ask · To what, where: great way, sheep, these

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 man), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 man	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	herding	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 man	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sheep	det
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 herding	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 asked	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 asked	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 asked	nsubj
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 sheep	nmod:poss
27	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 asked	obj
28	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 asked	obj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 was	cop
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 was	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 answer	det
32	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 these	acl:relcl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	water			a great way		far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	come up	past	water				then	to the old man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location
3	herd	gerund	the old man not said here	the sheep					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	water	these	sheep				tree rules

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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