The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 76

They went on quite happily for some distance, and at last they came to a river with rocks scattered here and there across the stream.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: go on, come, scatter · To what, where: last, rocks, stream

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 happily	advmod
5	happily	happily	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 distance	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 distance	det
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 came	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 rocks	case
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
20	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 rocks	acl
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 scattered	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 there	cc
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 here	conj
24	across	across	ADP	_	26 stream	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stream	det
26	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 scattered	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	eyes = eye			for some distance; happily property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	eyes = eye		last	to a river; with rocks	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
3	scatter	participle		rocks not said here	the stream; here		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across stream=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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