The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 53

For several days they travelled, and at last they came to a hole leading deep into the earth.

Who acts: men, hole · What happens: travel, come, lead · To what, where: last, earth

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 (men, hole), 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	_	3 days	case
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 travelled	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 travelled	nsubj
5	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 came	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 travelled	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 hole	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hole	det
14	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 hole	acl
16	deep	deep	ADV	_	15 leading	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 earth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 earth	det
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leading	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	men = man		day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	men = man	last		to a hole	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_Location
3	lead	gerund	a hole not said here	the earth		deep property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into earth=Destination

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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