The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 23
So he continued his journey, and after walking a long way he reached an orchard.
Who acts: man · What happens: continue, walk, reach, journey · To what, where: journey, long way, orchard
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 continued | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nmod:poss |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 walking | mark |
| 9 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 reached | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walking | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 orchard | det |
| 16 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | man | man's journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | man not said here | a long way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | man | a orchard | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent orchard=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | man | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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