The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 88

On the way they arrived on the banks of a river, and as there were no bridges in those days it was necessary to swim across it.

Who acts: cows · What happens: arrive, be, swim · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cows), 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	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 banks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 banks	det
8	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arrived	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 banks	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 necessary	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 necessary	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 were	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 necessary	cop
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 bridges	det
18	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 days	case
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 days	det
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 necessary	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 necessary	cop
24	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arrived	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 swim	mark
26	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 necessary	csubj
27	across	across	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 swim	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	cows = cow	the way	on the banks of a river	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	cows = cow not said here		necessary property	tree rules
3	swim	to-infinitive		way		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory

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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