The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 39
On he journeyed, over hills, and through rivers till he reached a wide plain, and never a glimpse did he catch of the falcon.
Who acts: face · What happens: journey, reach, catch · To what, where: hills, wide plain
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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 | _ | 3 journeyed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 catch | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hills | punct |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 journeyed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rivers | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rivers | cc |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 rivers | case |
| 10 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 journeyed | obl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 plain | det |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plain | amod |
| 16 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 did | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 glimpse | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 glimpse | det |
| 21 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 catch | aux |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 catch | nsubj |
| 24 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 falcon | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 falcon | det |
| 27 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 catch | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | face | hills | through rivers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | face | a wide plain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | past · do-support | face | of the falcon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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