The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 14

The Fairy drove him a long distance round, till they reached a village which lay at the bottom of the hill.

Who acts: Fairy, peacocks, village · What happens: drive, reach, lie · To what, where: Jack, village, bottom

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, peacocks, village), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 distance	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 distance	amod
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 distance	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reached	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 reached	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reached	nsubj
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 village	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 bottom	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bottom	det
19	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 hill	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hill	det
22	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bottom	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the Fairy	Jack		a long distance obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	reach	past	peacocks = peacock	a village			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme
3	lie	past	a village		the bottom of the hill		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location

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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