The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 62
After travelling many stages and for many days, he reached a plain of marvellous beauty and refreshment.
Who acts: king · What happens: travel, reach · To what, where: many stages, plain
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 travelling | mark |
| 2 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 reached | advcl |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stages | amod |
| 4 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travelling | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 days | cc |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stages | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelling | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plain | det |
| 13 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beauty | amod |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plain | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 refreshment | cc |
| 18 | refreshment | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beauty | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | king not said here | many stages and many days | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stage=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | king | a plain of marvellous beauty and refreshment | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=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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