--- title: And he walked, and he walked, and he walked, till he met the giant,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And he walked, and he walked, and he walked, till he met the giant, and asked him if he had seen a young man travelling towards the mountain. Who acts: noise, young man. 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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 (noise, young 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:20:78 # text = And he walked, and he walked, and he walked, till he met the giant, and asked him if he had seen a young man travelling towards the mountain. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 travelling travel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 towards towards ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | noise | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past | noise | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | past | noise | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **meet** | past | noise | the giant | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | noise *not said here* | | noise | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | noise | a young man | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 7 | **travel** | gerund | a young man *not said here* | | | the mountain | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=Destination | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/20/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/20/79/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/20/)