The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 58
All that day and all the next night he walked, and at length he came to a village where a great many weavers lived together.
Who acts: Weaver, great many weavers · What happens: walk, come, live together · To what, where: length
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weaver, great many weavers), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 night | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 night | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 length | case |
| 14 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 village | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 village | det |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 lived | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 weavers | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 weavers | amod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 weavers | amod |
| 24 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lived | nsubj |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 village | acl:relcl |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 lived | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Weaver | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Weaver | length | to a village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | live together | past | a great many weavers | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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