The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 25

A few days later the bride and bridegroom were taking a walk together, and the path led down to the river, and over the river was a bridge.

Who acts: bride, path · What happens: take, lead down, be · To what, where: walk, bridge, river

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, path), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 bride	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bridegroom	cc
8	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bride	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taking	aux
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 walk	det
12	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj
13	together	together	ADV	_	10 taking	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 led	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 led	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 path	det
17	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 led	nsubj
18	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taking	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 led	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 led	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bridge	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bridge	cc
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 river	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bridge	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bridge	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bridge	det
30	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	the bride and bridegroom	a walk		together property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
2	lead down	past	the path			to the river; down property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to river=Patient
3	is a	past		a bridge	the river		tree rules

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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