The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 98

On they went through thick forests where the sun never shone, over rivers so wide that it took a whole day to sail across them, up hills whose sides were all of glass; on they went through seven times seven countries till Peter reined in his horse before the house of an old woman.

Who acts: others, sun, it, hills, Peter · What happens: go, not shine, take, sail, go through, rein · To what, where: thick forests, all

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 (others, sun, it, hills), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 forests	case
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forests	amod
6	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 shone	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shone	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 shone	advmod
11	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forests	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rivers	punct
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 rivers	case
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 wide	advmod
16	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rivers	amod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 took	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wide	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sail	mark
24	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 took	advcl
25	across	across	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sail	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hills	punct
28	up	up	ADV	_	29 hills	advmod
29	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 all	nsubj
30	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	31 sides	nmod:poss
31	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hills	nmod
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 all	cop
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sail	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 glass	case
35	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 all	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
37	on	on	SCONJ	_	39 went	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
40	through	through	ADV	_	39 went	advmod
41	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 times	nummod
42	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 went	obl:unmarked
43	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 countries	nummod
44	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 times	conj
45	till	till	SCONJ	_	47 reined	mark
46	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 reined	nsubj
47	reined	rein	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 went	advcl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 horse	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 horse	nmod:poss
50	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 reined	obl
51	before	before	ADP	_	53 house	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 house	det
53	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 reined	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	57 woman	case
55	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 woman	det
56	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 woman	amod
57	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 house	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	others = other		thick forests		over rivers	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location over river=Destination
2	not shine	past	the sun					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	it			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sail	to-infinitive		all			across others = other	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across they=Trajectory
5	go through	past	hills = hill			time	through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rein	past	Peter			before the house of a old woman	in Peter's horse	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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