The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 78
So these seven journeyed together till they reached a vast open plain in which was a fair castle.
Who acts: seven, comrade, vast open plain · What happens: journey, reach, be · To what, where: vast open plain, fair castle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven, comrade, vast open plain), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 journeyed | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 seven | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 journeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 journeyed | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 journeyed | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 plain | det |
| 10 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plain | amod |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plain | amod |
| 12 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 castle | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 castle | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 castle | amod |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plain | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | this seven | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | comrade | a vast open plain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a vast open plain | a fair castle | 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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