The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 16

At length, when he was getting quite old, he came to a place unlike any that he had ever seen before, where a big river rolled right to the foot of some high mountains.

Who acts: cat, big river · What happens: get, come, see, roll · To what, where: length, foot

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, big river), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 getting	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 getting	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 getting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 getting	aux
7	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 length	parataxis
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 old	advmod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 getting	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	17 any	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 place	nmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 seen	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 seen	advmod
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 came	advcl
23	before	before	ADV	_	22 seen	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rolled	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 rolled	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 river	det
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 river	amod
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rolled	nsubj
29	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 seen	conj
30	right	right	ADV	_	33 foot	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 foot	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 foot	det
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rolled	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 mountains	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 mountains	det
36	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mountains	amod
37	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 foot	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	cat			old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	past	cat	length		to a place unlike any	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	see	past · perfect	cat		ever	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	roll	participle	a big river	the foot of some high mountains			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination

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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