The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 16

The way to the mountain lay straight before him, and when he had climbed high he caught sight of the roe with the white feet and the spotted sides, on the peak in front.

Who acts: way · What happens: lie, climb, catch, spot, sight · To what, where: sight, peak, roe

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 (way), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mountain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mountain	det
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	nmod
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 him	advmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 caught	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 caught	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 climbed	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 climbed	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 climbed	aux
15	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 caught	advcl
16	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 climbed	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 caught	nsubj
18	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	conj
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caught	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 roe	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 roe	det
22	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sight	nmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 feet	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 feet	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feet	amod
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 caught	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sides	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sides	det
29	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 sides	amod
30	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feet	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 peak	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 peak	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 peak	det
34	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caught	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 front	case
36	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 peak	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the way to the mountain			before crow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	climb	past · perfect	way				high property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	way	sight of the roe	the peak in front		with the white feet and the spotted sides	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
4	spot	participle						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
5	sight			the roe				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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