The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 6
Up and down the country went Trwyth the boar, and Arthur followed after him, till they came to the Severn sea.
Who acts: country, Arthur · What happens: go, follow, come · To what, where: Trwyth, Severn sea
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, Arthur), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 down | cc |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Up | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Trwyth | Trwyth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boar | det |
| 9 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 12 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 22 | Severn | Severn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sea | compound |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the country | Trwyth | the boar obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trwyth=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | Arthur | after boar | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Arthur | the Severn sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_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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