The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 19

They went a long way, and Ingibjorg grew very tired, and at length began to cry.

Who acts: elves, Ingibjorg · What happens: go, grow, begin, cry · To what, where: long way, length

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elves, Ingibjorg), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
8	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 tired	advmod
11	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 length	case
15	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	obl
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cry	mark
18	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	elves = elf	a long way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	grow	past	Ingibjorg			tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	elves = elf not said here		length		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	elves = elf not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 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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