The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 75
On they went, on and on and one, till they reached a cottage which was thatched with heather.
Who acts: men · What happens: go, reach, thatch · To what, where: cottage
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reached | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 on | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 on | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 on | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cottage | det |
| 15 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 thatched | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thatched | aux:pass |
| 18 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cottage | acl:relcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 heather | case |
| 20 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thatched | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | men = man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | men = man | a cottage | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thatch | past · passive | a cottage | with heather | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with heather=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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