The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 48
And now they journeyed on for many, many days, and then after a long, long time they came to a silver wood.
Who acts: woods · What happens: journey, come · To what, where: silver wood
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 journeyed | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 journeyed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 journeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 journeyed | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 days | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 many | punct |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 days | amod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 journeyed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 came | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 journeyed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 24 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wood | compound |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | woods = wood | now; day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | woods = wood | a silver wood | then; time | 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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