The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 108

On and on they went, and when at length the thread stopped the brothers knew that another day's journey would bring them to the Stalos' dwelling.

Who acts: sheds, brothers, journey, day · What happens: go, stop, know, bring, dwell, journey · To what, where: length, sheds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheds, brothers, journey, day), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stopped	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 stopped	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 length	case
10	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thread	det
12	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 length	nmod:unmarked
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brothers	det
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stopped	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bring	mark
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 journey	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 day	case
21	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	aux
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	ccomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obj
25	to	to	SCONJ	_	29 dwelling	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Stalos	det
27	Stalos	Stalos	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 dwelling	nmod:poss
28	'	's	PART	_	27 Stalos	case
29	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 bring	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	sheds = shed			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	sheds = shed not said here		length the thread	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
3	know	past	the brothers			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	bring	would	another day's journey	sheds = shed		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	dwell	gerund	another day's journey not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	journey		another day			nom journey «act transitive»: 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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