The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 90
By stage after stage, and after many days’ journeying, he arrived at the city of King Quimus.
Who acts: many days, King · What happens: ', journey, arrive · To what, where: city
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 (many days, King), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 stage | case |
| 2 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 stage | case |
| 4 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stage | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’ | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ’ | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ’ | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stage | parataxis |
| 11 | journeying | journey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ’ | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stage | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Quimus | case |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Quimus | compound |
| 20 | Quimus | Quimus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 city | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | present | many days | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | journey | gerund | many days not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | King | the city of King Quimus | by stage after stage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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