The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 46
After two hours' walking, they arrived at a large city, which they felt sure must be the capital of their father's kingdom.
Who acts: children, large city, two hours · What happens: arrive, feel, be, walk · To what, where: large city, sure capital
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, large city, two hours), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 walking | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walking | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 5 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 walking | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 city | amod |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 city | acl:relcl |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 capital | amod |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 capital | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 capital | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 capital | det |
| 21 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | advcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 kingdom | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 father | case |
| 26 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 capital | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | children = child | a large city | after two hours's walking | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past | a large city | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | must | a large city not said here | the sure capital | of children's father's kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 4 | walk | two hours | nom walking «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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