The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 126

They rode far without meeting any adventures, but at length they came to an ant-hill, and the horse stopped.

Who acts: questions, horse · What happens: ride, meet, come, stop · To what, where: adventures, length

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (questions, horse), 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 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 rode	advmod
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 meeting	mark
5	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rode	advcl
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 adventures	det
7	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meeting	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 length	case
11	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 hill	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hill	det
16	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hill	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 ant	punct
18	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stopped	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horse	det
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	questions = question			far property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	meet	gerund	questions = question not said here	any adventures			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Co-Agent
3	come	past	questions = question		length	to a ant hill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
4	stop	past	the horse				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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