The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 53

Makoma crossed the Zambesi, and for many moons he wandered towards the north and west until he came to a very hilly country where, one day, he met a huge giant making mountains.

Who acts: Makoma · What happens: cross, wander, come, meet, make · To what, where: Zambesi, north, hilly country, huge giant, mountains

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 (Makoma), 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	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	nsubj
2	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Zambesi	det
4	Zambesi	Zambesi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wandered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wandered	cc
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 moons	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moons	amod
9	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wandered	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wandered	nsubj
11	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crossed	parataxis
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 north	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 north	det
14	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wandered	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 west	cc
16	west	west	ADV	_	14 north	conj
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wandered	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 country	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 country	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 hilly	advmod
23	hilly	hilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 country	amod
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 country	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 where	punct
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 day	nummod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 where	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 met	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 met	nsubj
31	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 giant	det
33	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 giant	amod
34	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 met	obj
35	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 met	advcl
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 making	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Makoma	the Zambesi			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zambesi=Patient
2	wander	past	Makoma		the north	for many moons	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards north=Destination
3	come	past	Makoma		a hilly country		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
4	meet	past	Makoma	a huge giant			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent
5	make	gerund	Makoma not said here	mountains			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mountain=Product

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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