The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 130

Sometimes she would rest for a little on a mountain, and then start afresh always farther and farther on.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: rest, start · To what, where: mountain, afresh

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), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 rest	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rest	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	aux
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 little	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rest	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 mountain	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mountain	det
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 start	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 start	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 start	advmod
14	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rest	conj
15	afresh	afresh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 start	obj
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 farther	advmod
17	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 start	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 on	cc
19	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 on	advmod
20	on	on	ADV	_	17 farther	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	would	Princess			a mountain		for a little; sometimes property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location
2	start	infinitive	Princess not said here	afresh			then	far property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent afresh=Eventuality

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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