--- title: So he walked, and he walked, and he walked, until he met the giant,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he walked, and he walked, and he walked, until he met the giant, and he asked, ‘Have two young men, making for yonder mountain, passed this way?’ Who acts: cry. 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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 (cry), 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:pg5615:20:95 # text = So he walked, and he walked, and he walked, until he met the giant, and he asked, ‘Have two young men, making for yonder mountain, passed this way?’ 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 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 until until 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 , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 yonder yonder ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ _ 35 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | cry | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past | cry | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | past | cry | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **meet** | past | cry | the giant | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | cry | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** | present | | two young men | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 7 | **make** | gerund | | | | | | for mountain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for mountain=Asset | | 8 | **pass** | participle | | this way | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/20/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/20/96/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/20/)