The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 121

For a long time they wandered hither and thither, for they had no path to guide them; but at last they came upon a wide clearing, in the midst of which stood a castle.

Who acts: bits, midst · What happens: wander, have, guide, come, stand · To what, where: path, bits, last, castle

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bits, midst), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wandered	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wandered	nsubj
6	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hither	hither	ADV	_	6 wandered	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thither	cc
9	thither	thither	ADV	_	7 hither	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 had	case
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wandered	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 path	det
15	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 guide	mark
17	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 guide	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 came	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wandered	conj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 clearing	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 clearing	det
27	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 clearing	amod
28	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 midst	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 midst	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 midst	det
32	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 stood	nsubj
35	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 midst	acl:relcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 castle	det
37	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stood	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	bits = bit			time	hither property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	bits = bit	no path				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient
3	guide	to-infinitive	bits = bit not said here	bits = bit				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	come	past	bits = bit		last		upon a wide clearing; in the midst	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	stand	past	the midst	a castle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus

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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