The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 124
So they held on for some time, but at last they came to a small opening in the forest, and here they found that the road split in two.
Who acts: people, road · What happens: hold on, come, find, split · To what, where: last, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, road), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 opening | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 opening | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 opening | amod |
| 17 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opening | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 found | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 split | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 split | nsubj |
| 29 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | ccomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 two | case |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 split | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | past | people | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | people | last | to a small opening in the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to opening=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | people | here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | split | past | the road | two | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: 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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