The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 60
The path soon led to the lake of the dragons, which he had to swim across.
Who acts: path, lake · What happens: lead, have, swim · To what, where: lake
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, lake), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 path | det |
| 2 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 led | advmod |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dragons | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragons | det |
| 10 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lake | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lake | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 swim | mark |
| 16 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | across | across | ADV | _ | 16 swim | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the path | to the lake of the dragons; soon property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to lake=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | path | the lake of the dragons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | the lake of the dragons not said here | across property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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 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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