The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 125

After they had gone some little way they came to the bank of a river, and the Prince threw the witch’s daughter across to serve as a bridge, and so got over with the cinder wench.

Who acts: barleycorns, Prince · What happens: go, come, throw, serve, get over · To what, where: little way, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barleycorns, Prince), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 threw	advcl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 way	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 bank	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bank	det
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bank	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Prince	det
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 witch	det
22	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 witch	case
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obj
25	across	across	ADV	_	20 threw	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 serve	mark
27	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 threw	advcl
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 bridge	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bridge	det
30	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 serve	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 got	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 got	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 got	advmod
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 threw	conj
35	over	over	ADV	_	34 got	advmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 wench	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wench	det
38	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wench	compound
39	wench	wench	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	barleycorns = barleycorn	some little way		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	come	past	barleycorns = barleycorn	some little way not said here	to the bank of a river	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	throw	past	the Prince	the witch's daughter	across property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
4	serve	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here		as a bridge	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as bridge=Attribute
5	get over	past	the Prince not said here		with the cinder wench; over property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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