The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 104
All that day they walked, on and on, and on, Covan son of Gorla walking behind them, till night fell while they were on the banks of a river.
Who acts: cows, Covan son, night · What happens: walk, fall, be · To what, where: Covan son, banks
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cows, Covan son, night), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 on | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 on | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 on | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 son | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 son | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 on | punct |
| 14 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | compound |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Gorla | case |
| 17 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 18 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 son | acl |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 walking | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 fell | mark |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 banks | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 banks | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 banks | cop |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 banks | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 banks | det |
| 30 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fell | advcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 river | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 river | det |
| 33 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 banks | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | cows = cow | Covan son of Gorla | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | Covan son of Gorla not said here | behind cows = cow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | night | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | cows = cow | the banks | of a river | 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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