The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 40

He wandered so far that he crossed seven kingdoms, and at last, one evening, he came to a little house in which was an old woman.

Who acts: bade · What happens: wander, cross, come, be · To what, where: seven kingdoms, last, old woman, little house

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade), 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 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wandered	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 crossed	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 crossed	nsubj
7	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	advcl
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 kingdoms	nummod
9	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crossed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 evening	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 evening	nummod
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 last	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 last	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 house	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 house	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 house	amod
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 woman	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 woman	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	bade			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cross	past	bade	seven kingdoms			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient
3	come	past	bade		last	to a little house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	is a	past		a old woman	a little house		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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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