The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 68
So they travelled for a long time, and through many lands, and the King’s daughter did not at all know where he was taking her, but after a long, long time they came to a gold wood.
Who acts: entrails, daughter, King · What happens: travel, do, not know, take, come · To what, where: many lands, daughter, gold wood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (entrails, daughter, King), 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 travelled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lands | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lands | cc |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 lands | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lands | amod |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travelled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 did | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | conj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 did | advcl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 taking | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 taking | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 taking | aux |
| 27 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 know | ccomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 taking | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 came | cc |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 time | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 long | punct |
| 35 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 time | amod |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | obl |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 wood | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 wood | det |
| 41 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wood | compound |
| 42 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | entrails = entrail | many lands | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | do | past | the King's daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not know | present | the King's daughter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | take | past · progressive | King | daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 5 | come | past | entrails = entrail | a gold wood | 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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