The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 57

Down, down, down they went for days, all the while getting deeper and deeper into the earth, until at last the darkness ended and they dropped into a beautiful country; around them grew short green grass, on which browsed herds of cattle and sheep and goats.

Who acts: men, while, last darkness · What happens: go, get, end, drop, grow, browse · To what, where: earth, beautiful country, short green grass, herds

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, while, last darkness), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 down	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	1 Down	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Down	punct
5	down	down	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 while	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 while	det
13	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 getting	nsubj
14	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 went	advcl
15	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 getting	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 deeper	cc
17	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 deeper	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 getting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ended	punct
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 ended	mark
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 darkness	amod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 darkness	det
26	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ended	nsubj
27	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 getting	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dropped	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dropped	nsubj
30	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ended	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 country	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 country	det
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 country	amod
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dropped	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 grew	punct
36	around	around	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 grew	obl
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ended	conj
39	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 grass	amod
40	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 grass	amod
41	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grew	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 browsed	punct
43	on	on	ADP	_	44 which	case
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 browsed	nsubj
45	browsed	browse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grew	conj
46	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 browsed	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 cattle	case
48	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 herds	nmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sheep	cc
50	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 cattle	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 goats	cc
52	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 cattle	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	men = man			day	down property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	gerund	all while		the earth		deep property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into earth=Destination
3	end	past	the last darkness					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	drop	past	men = man		a beautiful country			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into country=Trajectory
5	grow	past	the last darkness not said here	short green grass			around men = man	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=Theme
6	browse	past		herds of cattle and sheep and goats				tree rules

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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