The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 18
At last they came to two mountains divided by a narrow valley.
Who acts: ways · What happens: come, divide · To what, where: last, two mountains
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ways), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 mountains | nummod |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mountains | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 valley | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 valley | det |
| 11 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 valley | amod |
| 12 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 divided | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | ways = way | last | to two mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | divide | participle | two mountains not said here | by a narrow valley | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by valley=Co-Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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