The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 53
They went on and on till they reached a great stone wall, many, many feet high.
Who acts: bulrushes · What happens: go, reach · To what, where: great stone wall
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 (bulrushes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wall | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wall | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wall | compound |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feet | punct |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feet | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 many | punct |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feet | amod |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 high | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wall | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | bulrushes = bulrush | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | bulrushes = bulrush | a great stone wall | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wall=Theme |
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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