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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 124

Then he took the middle road and went along it, day after day, with many a silent prayer, till he saw trees rise from the weary waste of sand.

Who acts: tee, trees · What happens: take, go, see, rise · To what, where: middle road, road, weary waste · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tee, trees), 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

advmodnsubjdetamodobjccconjcaseoblpunctoblcasenmodpunctcasensubjdetamodconjpunctmarknsubjconjnsubjccompcasedetamodoblcasenmodpunctrootThenADVhePRONtookVERBtheDETmiddleADJroadNOUNandCCONJwentVERBalongADPitPRON,PUNCTdayNOUNafterADPdayNOUN,PUNCTwithADPmanyADJaDETsilentADJprayerNOUN,PUNCTtillSCONJhePRONsawVERBtreesNOUNriseVERBfromADPtheDETwearyADJwasteNOUNofADPsandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 tookadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 roaddet
5middlemiddleADJDegree=Pos6 roadamod
6roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobj
7andandCCONJ_8 wentcc
8wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
9alongalongADP_10 itcase
10ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 wentobl
11,,PUNCT_12 daypunct
12daydayNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobl
13afterafterADP_14 daycase
14daydayNOUNNumber=Sing12 daynmod
15,,PUNCT_20 prayerpunct
16withwithADP_20 prayercase
17manymanyADJDegree=Pos20 prayernsubj
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 prayerdet
19silentsilentADJDegree=Pos20 prayeramod
20prayerprayerNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookconj
21,,PUNCT_24 sawpunct
22tilltillSCONJ_24 sawmark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 sawnsubj
24sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
25treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur26 risensubj
26riseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 sawccomp
27fromfromADP_30 wastecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 wastedet
29wearywearyADJDegree=Pos30 wasteamod
30wastewasteNOUNNumber=Sing26 riseobl
31ofofADP_32 sandcase
32sandsandNOUNNumber=Sing30 wastenmod
33..PUNCT_3 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastteethe middle roadthen; dayvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
2gopasttee not said hereroadvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along it=Initial_Location
3seepastteevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4risepresenttreesthe weary waste of sandvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from waste=Initial_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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