The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 129

On and on and on she went across bare sandy deserts, where the roads were so heavy that for every two steps that she took forwards she fell back one; but she struggled on till she had passed these dreary plains; next she crossed high rocky mountains, jumping from crag to crag and from peak to peak.

Who acts: Princess, roads, two steps · What happens: go, be, take, fall back, struggle, pass · To what, where: bare sandy deserts, one, dreary plains, high rocky mountains, crag

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, roads, two steps), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 on	case
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 on	cc
3	on	on	ADV	_	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 on	conj
8	across	across	ADV	_	11 deserts	advmod
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deserts	amod
10	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deserts	amod
11	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heavy	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 heavy	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roads	det
15	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heavy	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heavy	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 heavy	advmod
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deserts	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 steps	mark
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 steps	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 steps	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 steps	nummod
23	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heavy	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 took	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 steps	acl:relcl
27	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	26 took	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 fell	advmod
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 fell	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 struggled	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 struggled	nsubj
35	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
36	on	on	ADV	_	35 struggled	advmod
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 passed	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 passed	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 passed	aux
40	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 struggled	advcl
41	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 plains	det
42	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 plains	amod
43	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 passed	obj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 crossed	punct
45	next	next	ADV	_	47 crossed	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 crossed	nsubj
47	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 struggled	conj
48	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 mountains	amod
49	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 mountains	amod
50	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 crossed	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 jumping	punct
52	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 crossed	advcl
53	from	from	ADP	_	54 crag	case
54	crag	crag	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 jumping	obl
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 crag	case
56	crag	crag	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 jumping	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 peak	cc
58	from	from	ADP	_	59 peak	case
59	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 crag	conj
60	to	to	ADP	_	61 peak	case
61	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 peak	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 on	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Princess	bare sandy deserts			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the roads			heavy property	tree rules
3	take	past	every two steps			forwards property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fall back	past	Princess	one			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result
5	struggle	past	Princess				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pass	past · perfect	Princess	this dreary plains			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plain=Trajectory
7	cross	past	Princess	high rocky mountains		next property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient
8	jump	gerund	Princess not said here		crag	to crag and peak to peak result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from crag=Initial_State to crag=Result

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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