The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 108

And behold! right down the river-bed and up the river-bed, till they faded into the blue distance, stretched the giant's grey moustaches!

Who acts: beds · What happens: fade, stretch · To what, where: grey moustaches

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beds), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 bed	cc
2	behold	behold	INTJ	_	9 bed	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 behold	punct
4	right	right	ADV	_	9 bed	advmod
5	down	down	ADP	_	9 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 river	punct
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 faded	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bed	cc
11	up	up	ADP	_	15 bed	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bed	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 river	punct
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 faded	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 faded	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 faded	nsubj
19	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 distance	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 distance	det
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 distance	amod
23	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 faded	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stretched	punct
25	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 faded	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 giant	det
27	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 moustaches	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 giant	case
29	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 moustaches	amod
30	moustaches	moustache	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stretched	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 faded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	past	beds = bed					down the river bed and the river bed; into the blue distance	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stretch	past	beds = bed not said here	the giant's grey moustaches					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent moustache=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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