The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 59
On and on the goat walked for some way, and then disappeared into a cave in the rocks.
Who acts: goat · What happens: walk, disappear · To what, where: cave
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat), 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 | ADP | _ | 5 goat | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 On | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappeared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappeared | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 disappeared | advmod |
| 13 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 cave | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cave | det |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappeared | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 rocks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rocks | det |
| 19 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 disappeared | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the goat | for some way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the goat not said here | a cave | then | in the rocks | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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