The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 2
After a long, long time they came to a high hill, where there was a precipitous wall of rock.
Who acts: they · What happens: come, be · To what, where: precipitous wall
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hill | amod |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wall | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 was | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wall | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 18 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wall | amod |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rock | case |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wall | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | they | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a precipitous wall | to a high hill; of rock | tree rules |
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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