The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 1
In this way he travelled through many countries, till at last he came to a land that was ruled over by a great king.
Who acts: he, great king · What happens: travel, come, rule over · To what, where: way, last, land
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, great king), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelled | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 travelled | nsubj |
| 5 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 countries | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 countries | amod |
| 8 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 travelled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelled | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ruled | aux:pass |
| 20 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 land | acl:relcl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 ruled | compound:prt |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 king | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 king | amod |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ruled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | he | this way | through many countries | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | he | last | to a land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | rule over | past · passive | a great king | a land | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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