The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 29

So he went on his way, and by-and-by he came to a wood.

Who acts: lover · What happens: go, come · To what, where: way, wood

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 (lover), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
9	by	by	ADP	_	15 came	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	lover			lover's way			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	come	past	lover			a wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_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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