The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 108
Round and round he rode, through seven times seven countries, through forests still thicker, and rivers still wider, and mountains still more slippery than the others he had passed, till at length he reached a house where dwelt another old woman.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: ride, pass, reach, dwell · To what, where: seven countries, forests, others, house, length, old woman
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | Round | round | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 round | cc |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Round | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 times | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 countries | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 countries | nummod |
| 11 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forests | punct |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 forests | case |
| 14 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | obl |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 thicker | advmod |
| 16 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 forests | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wider | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wider | cc |
| 19 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wider | nsubj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 wider | advmod |
| 21 | wider | wide | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 rode | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 slippery | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 slippery | cc |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 slippery | nsubj |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 slippery | advmod |
| 27 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rode | conj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 others | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 others | det |
| 30 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 slippery | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 passed | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 passed | aux |
| 33 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 others | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 reached | punct |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 39 reached | mark |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 length | case |
| 37 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reached | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 reached | nsubj |
| 39 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 house | det |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reached | obj |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 dwelt | advmod |
| 43 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 house | acl |
| 44 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 woman | det |
| 45 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 woman | amod |
| 46 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dwelt | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Peter | seven countries through seven times | forests | round, wide property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect | Peter | the others not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme other=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Peter | a house | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent house=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 4 | dwell | participle | another old woman | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location |
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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