The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 79

In this way he was able to reach the end of the garden, and at length perceived the castle of Kerglas, with the river between them which had only one ford.

Who acts: instant, river · What happens: be, reach, perceive, have · To what, where: way, end, castle, length, one ford

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 (instant, river), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 able	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 able	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perceived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 perceived	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 length	case
17	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perceived	obl
18	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 able	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 castle	det
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perceived	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Kerglas	case
22	Kerglas	Kerglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 castle	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 river	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 river	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 river	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perceived	obl
27	between	between	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 river	nmod
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 river	acl:relcl
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 one	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 ford	nummod
33	ford	ford	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	instant		this way	able property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	instant not said here	the end of the garden			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme
3	perceive	past	instant not said here	the castle of Kerglas	length	with the river between ears	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
4	have	past	the river between ears	one ford			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ford=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 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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