The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 76
Autumn passed, and winter was just beginning when they came to the foot of a great range of mountains, towering up to the sky.
Who acts: Autumn, winter, tales · What happens: pass, begin, come, tower up · To what, where: foot
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Autumn, winter, tales), 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 | Autumn | Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beginning | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beginning | cc |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beginning | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 beginning | advmod |
| 8 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 passed | conj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beginning | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 foot | det |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 range | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 range | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 range | amod |
| 18 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 foot | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mountains | case |
| 20 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 range | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 towering | punct |
| 22 | towering | tower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 towering | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 sky | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sky | det |
| 26 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 towering | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Autumn | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past · progressive | winter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | past | tales = tale | the foot of a great range of mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tower up | gerund | tales = tale not said here | to the sky | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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