The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 158
At last she reached a beautiful green meadow on the edge of a wood.
Who acts: mother · What happens: reach · To what, where: beautiful green meadow, last
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 (mother), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 meadow | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meadow | amod |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meadow | amod |
| 8 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 edge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edge | det |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meadow | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 edge | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | mother | a beautiful green meadow | last | on the edge of a wood | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme at last=Asset |
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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