The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 73

It took them a whole year to reach the shrine, and they passed through many different lands on their way.

Who acts: It, eyes · What happens: take, reach, pass · To what, where: eyes, shrine, many different lands

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, eyes), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shrine	det
10	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 passed	nsubj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
15	through	through	ADP	_	18 lands	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lands	amod
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lands	amod
18	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 passed	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	eyes = eye		year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive		the shrine				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shrine=Theme
3	pass	past	eyes = eye		many different lands		on eyes's way	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through land=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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