The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 16

It was a long way off, and the road led over mountains and through valleys; but at last he reached the cave where the Holy Man dwelt, and knocked at the door.

Who acts: cave, road, Holy Man · What happens: be, lead, reach, dwell, knock · To what, where: long way, mountains, cave, last

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, road, Holy Man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
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	root	root
6	off	off	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 led	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 led	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	nsubj
11	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	parataxis
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 mountains	case
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 led	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 valleys	cc
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 valleys	case
16	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mountains	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 reached	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 reached	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reached	nsubj
22	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 led	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cave	det
24	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 dwelt	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Man	det
27	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	28 Man	compound
28	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 dwelt	nsubj
29	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cave	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knocked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knocked	cc
32	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 led	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 door	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knocked	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cave	a long way		off property	tree rules
2	lead	past	the road		mountains and valleys		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over mountain=Destination
3	reach	past	road	the cave	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cave=Theme at last=Asset
4	dwell	past	the Holy Man				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	knock	past	the road not said here			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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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