The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 39
The journey to Buda was long, and it was several days before they arrived there.
Who acts: journey, daughters · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: several days
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, daughters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 journey | det |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Buda | case |
| 4 | Buda | Buda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 journey | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 days | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 days | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 days | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 days | cop |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 long | parataxis |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 arrived | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 days | advcl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 arrived | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the journey to Buda | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | journey | several days | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | daughters = daughter | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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