The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 123
At length he stopped above a deep pool in a river.
Who acts: Llyw · What happens: stop · To what, where: length
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Llyw), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 pool | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pool | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pool | amod |
| 8 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Llyw | length | above a deep pool; in a river | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
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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