The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 72
Then they went on and on, so far that no one has ever been farther, and at last they came to the Kingdom of the Cockchafers.
Who acts: King · What happens: go, be, come · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 on | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 on | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 far | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 farther | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 been | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 been | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 been | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 been | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 farther | cop |
| 16 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 came | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Kingdom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Kingdom | det |
| 25 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Cockchafers | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Cockchafers | det |
| 28 | Cockchafers | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | King | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | King | last | to the Kingdom; of the Cockchafers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location of cockchafer=Destination |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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