The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 83

Makoma, after placing him in his sack, proceeded upon his journey, and travelling for many days he at last reached a country so barren and rocky that not a single living thing grew upon it--everywhere reigned grim desolation.

Who acts: Makoma, single living thing · What happens: place, proceed, travel, reach, grow, reign · To what, where: Makoma, sack, last, country, breath, grim desolation

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, single living thing), 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	10 proceeded	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Makoma	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 placing	mark
4	placing	place	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Makoma	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 placing	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sack	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sack	nmod:poss
8	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Makoma	punct
10	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 journey	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 journey	nmod:poss
13	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proceeded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reached	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reached	cc
16	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 reached	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 days	case
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 travelling	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 travelling	nsubj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 travelling	obl
23	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 proceeded	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 country	det
25	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reached	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 barren	advmod
27	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 reached	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rocky	cc
29	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 barren	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 grew	mark
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 thing	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 thing	det
33	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thing	amod
34	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thing	compound
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grew	nsubj
36	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 barren	advcl
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 grew	obl
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 reigned	punct
40	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 reigned	advmod
41	reigned	reign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 grew	conj
42	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 desolation	amod
43	desolation	desolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reigned	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	gerund	Makoma not said here	Makoma	Makoma's sack			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sack=Destination
2	proceed	past	Makoma				upon Makoma's journey	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	travel	gerund	Makoma		last	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory
4	reach	past	Makoma not said here	a country			barren property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme
5	grow	past	a single living thing		breath			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
6	reign	participle	a single living thing not said here	grim desolation			everywhere property	tree rules
7	journey		Makoma					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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