The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 42
On and on he went across the sandy waste, weeping and with burning breast, till at length a hill rose into sight.
Who acts: Prince, hill · What happens: go, burn, rise · To what, where: sandy waste, breast, length
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hill), 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 | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 On | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 waste | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waste | det |
| 8 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 waste | amod |
| 9 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weeping | punct |
| 11 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waste | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burning | cc |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 burning | mark |
| 14 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burning | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rose | punct |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 rose | mark |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 length | case |
| 19 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hill | det |
| 21 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | nsubj |
| 22 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | the sandy waste and weeping | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across waste=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | Prince not said here | breast | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breast=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | a hill | length | into sight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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