English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 9

She took it, with thanks, and proceeded on her journey, passing through groves, woods, and valleys, till at length she saw an old man sitting on a stone at the mouth of a cave, who said: “Good morrow, fair maiden, whither away so fast?”

Who acts: princess, old man, cave · What happens: take, proceed, pass, see, sit, say · To what, where: bag, journey, groves, old man, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, old man, cave), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 thanks	case
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proceeded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 proceeded	cc
9	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 journey	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 journey	nmod:poss
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 proceeded	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passing	punct
14	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 proceeded	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 groves	case
16	groves	grove	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 passing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 woods	punct
18	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 groves	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 valleys	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 valleys	cc
21	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
23	till	till	ADP	_	25 length	case
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 length	case
25	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
31	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 man	acl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 stone	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stone	det
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 mouth	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mouth	det
37	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 cave	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cave	det
40	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mouth	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 said	nsubj
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 cave	acl:relcl
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 morrow	punct
45	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 morrow	punct
46	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 morrow	amod
47	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 said	ccomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 maiden	punct
49	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 maiden	amod
50	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 morrow	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 away	punct
52	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	53 away	advmod
53	away	away	ADV	_	47 morrow	conj
54	so	so	ADV	_	55 fast	advmod
55	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	53 away	advmod
56	?	?	PUNCT	_	53 away	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	47 morrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	princess	bag			with thanks; valleys obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	proceed	past	princess not said here		princess's journey			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	pass	gerund	princess not said here		groves and woods			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through grove=Location
4	see	past	princess	a old man		till length		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	sit	gerund	a old man not said here		a stone		at the mouth of a cave	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
6	say speech: assert	past	a cave					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	journey		princess					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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