The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 37
And so they crossed the seas and journeyed till they reached the town where the Princess of the Golden Roof dwelt.
Who acts: goldsmiths, Princess · What happens: cross, journey, reach, dwell · To what, where: seas, town
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goldsmiths, Princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crossed | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 crossed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 seas | det |
| 6 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 journeyed | cc |
| 8 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossed | conj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 journeyed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 dwelt | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 dwelt | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Roof | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Roof | det |
| 19 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Roof | amod |
| 20 | Roof | Roof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Princess | nmod |
| 21 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 town | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | goldsmiths = goldsmith | the seas | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | journey | past | goldsmiths = goldsmith not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | goldsmiths = goldsmith | the town | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dwell | past | the Princess of the Golden Roof | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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