The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 94
For many hours the king walked, and at length he reached a high rock, which was rent into two by a great earthquake.
Who acts: king, great earthquake · What happens: walk, reach, rend · To what, where: high rock, length, two
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, great earthquake), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reached | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rock | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rock | amod |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rent | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 rent | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rent | aux:pass |
| 19 | rent | rend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rock | acl:relcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 two | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 rent | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 earthquake | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 earthquake | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 earthquake | amod |
| 25 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rent | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the king | hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | king | a high rock | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rock=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 3 | rend | past · passive | a great earthquake | a high rock | into two result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into two=Result |
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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