The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 17

Graciosa, much against her will, was forced into it, and away they drove, and never stopped until they reached a great forest, a hundred leagues from the palace.

Who acts: strangers · What happens: force, drive, not stop, reach · To what, where: Graciosa, carriage, great forest

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strangers), 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	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 forced	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 will	punct
3	much	much	ADV	_	6 will	advmod
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 will	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 will	nmod:poss
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Graciosa	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Graciosa	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forced	aux:pass
9	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forced	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drove	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drove	cc
14	away	away	ADV	_	16 drove	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drove	nsubj
16	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forced	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stopped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stopped	cc
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 stopped	advmod
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forced	conj
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 reached	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reached	nsubj
23	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stopped	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 forest	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forest	amod
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reached	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leagues	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hundred	det
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 leagues	nummod
30	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 forest	nmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 palace	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 palace	det
33	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leagues	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		Graciosa	carriage		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	drive	past	strangers = stranger			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	not stop	past					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	reach	past	strangers = stranger	a great forest hundred leagues from the palace			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme

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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