The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 87

For many hours he trudged on merrily, now and then stopping to drink from some clear spring or to pick some ripe fruit from a tree.

Who acts: couple · What happens: trudge, stop, drink, pick · To what, where: ripe fruit, tree

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 hours	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hours	amod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trudged	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trudged	nsubj
5	trudged	trudge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 merrily	case
7	merrily	merrily	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 trudged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopping	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stopping	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stopping	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stopping	advmod
12	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 trudged	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drink	mark
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopping	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 spring	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 spring	det
17	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spring	amod
18	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drink	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 pick	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pick	mark
21	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 drink	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 fruit	det
23	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fruit	amod
24	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pick	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 tree	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pick	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trudged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	trudge	past	couple			hour	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on merrily=Trajectory
2	stop	gerund	couple not said here			now; then	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	drink	to-infinitive	couple not said here			spring	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pick	to-infinitive	couple not said here	some ripe fruit	a tree		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme from tree=Source

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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