The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 75

He went on his way even greater than before, as all the river-maker's power had become his; and at last he came to a forest of bao- babs and thorn trees.

Who acts: size, power · What happens: go, become, come · To what, where: way, last

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 (size, power), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 greater	advmod
7	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 way	amod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 greater	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 become	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 become	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 maker	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maker	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maker	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 river	punct
16	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 power	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 maker	case
18	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 become	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 become	aux
20	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 become	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 came	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 babs	case
32	bao	bao	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 babs	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bao	punct
34	babs	bab	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 forest	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 trees	cc
36	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 trees	compound
37	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 babs	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	size	size's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	become	past · perfect	all river maker's power			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	size	last	to a forest of bao babs and thorn trees	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_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 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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