The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 42

One night, after they had been walking for many hours and were very tired, they came to a large lake with an island in the middle of it.

Who acts: brothers · What happens: walk, be, come · To what, where: large lake

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 walking	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 walking	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 walking	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 walking	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 walking	aux
8	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 night	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hours	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hours	amod
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walking	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tired	cc
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tired	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 tired	advmod
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 walking	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 lake	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lake	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lake	amod
22	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 island	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 island	det
25	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lake	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 middle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 middle	det
28	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 island	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 middle	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect · progressive	brothers = brother		hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	brothers = brother not said here			tired property	tree rules
3	come	past	brothers = brother	a large lake with a island in the middle of middle	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=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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