The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 32

He traveled on for some days, and presently reached a fountain beside which an old woman all in rags sat upon a stone.

Who acts: son, old woman · What happens: travel on, reach, sit · To what, where: fountain

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, old woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traveled	nsubj
2	traveled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 traveled	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 days	det
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 traveled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reached	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 reached	cc
9	presently	presently	ADV	_	10 reached	advmod
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 traveled	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fountain	det
12	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sat	obl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	nsubj
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 rags	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 rags	case
20	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 woman	nmod
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fountain	acl:relcl
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 stone	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stone	det
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 traveled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel on	past	son			day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	son not said here	a fountain			presently property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme
3	sit	past	a old woman in rags		a fountain		upon a stone	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside which=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 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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