The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 65

I soon reached the little town where the maiden dwelt; but there fresh difficulties awaited me.

Who acts: I, maiden, fresh difficulties · What happens: reach, dwell, await · To what, where: little town, me

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, maiden, fresh difficulties), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 reached	advmod
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 dwelt	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dwelt	nsubj
10	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 town	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 awaited	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 awaited	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 awaited	advmod
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 difficulties	amod
15	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 awaited	nsubj
16	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 awaited	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	I	the little town		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme
2	dwell	past	the maiden				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	await	past	fresh difficulties	me	there		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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