The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 69
All that day they rode, for game was plentiful, but towards evening the mother and son found themselves alone in a part of the country that was strange to them.
Who acts: people, game, mother, country · What happens: ride, be, find · To what, where: people, part
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, game, mother, country), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plentiful | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 plentiful | case |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plentiful | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plentiful | cop |
| 10 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rode | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 evening | case |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 son | cc |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mother | conj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 19 found | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 strange | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 strange | cop |
| 30 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 country | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 strange | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | people | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | game | plentiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past | the mother and son | people | a part of the country | evening | alone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |
| 4 | is | past | the country | people | strange property | 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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