The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 80

And further again the path led them by the shores of a lake whereon were floating two boats; one full of gay and happy youths, journeying to the land of the Sun, and another with grim shapes clothed in black, travelling to the land of Night.

Who acts: path, one full youths · What happens: lead, float, journey, clothe, travel · To what, where: cows, two boats, land, grim shapes

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 (path, one full youths), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 further	cc
2	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 led	advmod
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 further	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 path	det
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	nsubj
6	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 led	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 shores	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shores	det
10	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 led	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shores	nmod
14	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	16 floating	advmod
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 floating	aux
16	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 led	advcl
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 boats	nummod
18	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 floating	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 youths	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 youths	nummod
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 youths	amod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 gay	case
23	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 full	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 happy	cc
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 full	conj
26	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 led	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 journeying	punct
28	journeying	journey	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 youths	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 land	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 land	det
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 journeying	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Sun	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sun	det
34	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 land	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 another	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 another	cc
37	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 youths	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 shapes	case
39	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shapes	amod
40	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 another	nmod
41	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 shapes	acl
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 black	case
43	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 clothed	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 travelling	punct
45	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 led	advcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 land	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 land	det
48	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 travelling	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Night	case
50	Night	Night	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 land	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the path	cows = cow		by the shores of a lake; one full youths obl; far property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by shore=Destination
2	float	past · progressive	the path not said here	two boats		whereon property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	journey	gerund	one full youths not said here		the land of the Sun		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination
4	clothe	participle		grim shapes not said here		in black	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in black=Theme
5	travel	gerund	the path not said here		the land of Night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=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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