The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 97

For some miles his road lay through a wood, and when he left it he suddenly came out on a bare hillside.

Who acts: road, king · What happens: lie, leave, come out · To what, where: wood, road, bare hillside

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 miles	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 miles	det
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 road	nmod:poss
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 left	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 hillside	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hillside	det
22	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hillside	amod
23	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	king's road		a wood	for some miles	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Location
2	leave	past	king	road			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	come out	past	king		a bare hillside	out, suddenly property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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