The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 85

Then they journeyed onwards by degrees, for the Bull said that they had still a little farther to go, and in this way they crossed many high hills and thick woods.

Who acts: wounds, Bull · What happens: journey, say, have, go, cross · To what, where: many high hills · 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 (wounds, Bull), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 journeyed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 journeyed	nsubj
3	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	3 journeyed	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 degrees	case
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 journeyed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bull	det
10	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 journeyed	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	still	still	ADV	_	18 farther	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 farther	obl
18	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 had	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 farther	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crossed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 crossed	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crossed	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 crossed	nsubj
27	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 journeyed	conj
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hills	amod
29	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hills	amod
30	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crossed	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 woods	cc
32	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woods	amod
33	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hills	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 journeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	journey	past	wounds = wound		then	by degrees; onwards property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by degree=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past	the Bull				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	wounds = wound			far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	to-infinitive	wounds = wound not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cross	past	wounds = wound	many high hills and thick woods		in this way	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent hill=Patient in way=Topic

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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