The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 86
Over the woods and fields they went, and at length they reached a king's palace surrounded by beautiful gardens.
Who acts: fields · What happens: go, reach, surround · To what, where: woods, palace, length
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fields), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 woods | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woods | det |
| 3 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fields | cc |
| 5 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 woods | conj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 18 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 palace | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 gardens | case |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gardens | amod |
| 21 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fields = field | the woods and fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | fields = field | a king's palace | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent palace=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 3 | surround | participle | a king's palace not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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