The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 10
Over mountains, through deserts, across rivers I went, till I reached a fair valley full of trees, with a path running by the side of a stream.
Who acts: I, path · What happens: go, reach, run · To what, where: rivers, fair valley
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 2 mountains | case |
| 2 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserts | punct |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 deserts | case |
| 5 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mountains | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rivers | punct |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 rivers | case |
| 8 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mountains | conj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rivers | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 reached | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 valley | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 valley | amod |
| 17 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 valley | amod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 path | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 path | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 path | det |
| 24 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 path | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 side | det |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 running | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 stream | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 stream | det |
| 31 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 side | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mountains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | rivers not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | I | a fair valley | with a path | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent valley=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | a path not said here | by the side of a stream | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
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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