The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 78
For some time he wandered from village to village and from town to town, till he came at length to a large city in a distant kingdom, surrounded on three sides by a great lake, which happened to be the very lake in which the dragon lived.
Who acts: Dragon, great lake · What happens: wander, come, surround, happen, be, live · To what, where: village, length, distant kingdom, three sides, lake
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon, great lake), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 town | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 village | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 length | case |
| 20 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 city | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 city | amod |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 kingdom | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 kingdom | det |
| 27 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 kingdom | amod |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 city | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 surrounded | punct |
| 30 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 kingdom | acl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 sides | case |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 sides | nummod |
| 33 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 surrounded | obl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 lake | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 lake | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lake | amod |
| 37 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 happened | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 happened | nsubj |
| 40 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 lake | acl:relcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 lake | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 lake | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 lake | det |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 lake | advmod |
| 45 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 happened | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 lived | obl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 dragon | det |
| 49 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 lived | nsubj |
| 50 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 lake | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Dragon | village | time | to village and town; to town | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | ||
| 2 | come | past | Dragon | length | to a large city in a distant kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | surround | participle | a distant kingdom not said here | three sides | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | a great lake | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | a great lake not said here | the lake | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | past | the dragon | the lake | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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