The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 83

The girl had to ride for a great many days, and for a long and wearisome time, before she got there; but at last she did arrive, and then she asked the East Wind if he could tell her the way to the Prince who dwelt east of the sun and west of the moon.

Who acts: girl, horse · What happens: have, ride, get, arrive, ask, tell · To what, where: last, East Wind, way, girl, sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, horse), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ride	mark
5	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 days	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ride	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 time	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	18 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wearisome	cc
17	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 long	conj
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 got	punct
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 got	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	nsubj
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	advcl
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 got	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 arrive	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 arrive	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 arrive	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 arrive	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 arrive	aux
30	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 asked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 asked	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 asked	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 asked	nsubj
35	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Wind	det
37	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Wind	compound
38	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 asked	iobj
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 tell	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tell	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 tell	aux
42	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 asked	ccomp
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tell	iobj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 way	det
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tell	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 Prince	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Prince	det
48	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 tell	obl
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 dwelt	nsubj
50	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 tell	ccomp
51	east	east	ADV	_	54 sun	advmod
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 sun	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 sun	det
54	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 dwelt	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 moon	cc
56	west	west	ADV	_	59 moon	advmod
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 moon	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 moon	det
59	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 sun	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the girl						tree rules
2	ride	to-infinitive	the girl not said here				day; time		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past	girl			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	arrive	past · do-support	girl			last			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	girl		the East Wind		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	horse	the way	girl			to the Prince	tree rules
7	dwell	past		the sun and the moon					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme sun=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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