The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 13

Makoma travelled far towards the west; over rough mountains and water-logged morasses, fording deep rivers, and tramping for days across dry deserts where most men would have died, until at length he arrived at a hut standing near some large peaks, and inside the hut were two beautiful women.

Who acts: Makoma, most men, hut, two beautiful women · What happens: travel, log, ford, tramp, die, arrive · To what, where: west, deep rivers, dry deserts, length, large peaks, hut

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma, most men, hut, two beautiful women), 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	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 travelled	advmod
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 west	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 west	det
6	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 mountains	punct
8	over	over	ADV	_	9 rough	advmod
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mountains	amod
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelled	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 morasses	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 logged	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 water	punct
14	logged	log	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 morasses	amod
15	morasses	morass	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mountains	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fording	punct
17	fording	ford	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
18	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rivers	amod
19	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fording	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tramping	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tramping	cc
22	tramping	tramp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fording	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 days	case
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tramping	obl
25	across	across	ADP	_	27 deserts	case
26	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deserts	amod
27	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tramping	obl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 died	advmod
29	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 died	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 died	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 died	aux
33	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 deserts	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 arrived	punct
35	until	until	SCONJ	_	39 arrived	mark
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 length	case
37	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 arrived	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 arrived	nsubj
39	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tramping	conj
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 hut	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 hut	det
42	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 arrived	obl
43	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 hut	acl
44	near	near	ADP	_	47 peaks	case
45	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	47 peaks	det
46	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 peaks	amod
47	peaks	peak	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 standing	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 were	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 were	cc
50	inside	inside	ADP	_	52 hut	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 hut	det
52	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 were	obl
53	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
54	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 women	nummod
55	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 women	amod
56	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 were	nsubj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Makoma		the west		far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards west=Destination
2	log	participle						vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ford	gerund	Makoma not said here	deep rivers				tree rules
4	tramp	gerund	Makoma not said here		dry deserts	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across desert=Trajectory
5	die	would · perfect	most men					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	arrive	past	Makoma		length		at a hut	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stand	gerund	a hut not said here		some large peaks			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near peak=Location
8	be	past	two beautiful women		the hut			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside hut=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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