--- title: He strolled about the country as ragged as a colt, till he met with… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He strolled about the country as ragged as a colt, till he met with a wagoner who was going to London, and who gave him leave to walk all the way by the side of his wagon without paying anything for his passage. Who acts: Dick, wagoner. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, wagoner), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:29:2 # text = He strolled about the country as ragged as a colt, till he met with a wagoner who was going to London, and who gave him leave to walk all the way by the side of his wagon without paying anything for his passage. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 strolled stroll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 ragged ragged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 colt colt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 till till SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wagoner wagoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 wagon wagon NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 without without SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 42 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 41 obj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stroll** | past | Dick | | | | | about the country | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Trajectory | | 2 | **meet** | past | Dick | | | | | with a wagoner | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wagoner=Co-Agent | | 3 | **go** | past · progressive | a wagoner | | | London | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to london=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **give** | past | | | Dick | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **walk** | to-infinitive | | all way | | | | by the side of Dick's wagon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory | | 7 | **pay** | gerund | | anything | | | | for Dick's passage | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent anything=Asset for passage=Theme | | 8 | **pass** | | Dick | | | | | | nom passage «act intransitive»: 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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/3/) - ↑ back to [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/)