The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 83

The way was long, and lay through a thick wood, where the Princess heard strange voices calling to her from every side, but she was in such a hurry that she stopped for nothing, and at last she came to the courtyard of the Enchanter’s castle.

Who acts: way, Princess, strange voices · What happens: be, lay, hear, call, stop, come · To what, where: thick wood, strange voices, Princess, side, hurry, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (way, Princess, strange voices), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lay	cc
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 long	conj
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 wood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wood	det
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 heard	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	parataxis
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 voices	amod
18	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	obj
19	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 voices	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 calling	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 side	det
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 calling	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hurry	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 hurry	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hurry	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hurry	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 hurry	case
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 hurry	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hurry	det
32	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 stopped	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stopped	nsubj
35	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hurry	advcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 nothing	case
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 stopped	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 came	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 came	cc
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 last	case
41	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 came	obl
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 courtyard	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 courtyard	det
46	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 came	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 castle	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Enchanter	det
49	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 castle	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 Enchanter	case
51	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 courtyard	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the way			long property	tree rules
2	lay	infinitive	the way not said here		a thick wood		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination
3	hear	past	the Princess	strange voices			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
4	call	gerund	strange voices not said here	Princess	every side		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent her=Theme from side=Source
5	is	past	Princess		such hurry		tree rules
6	stop	past	Princess			for nothing	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	come	past	Princess		last	to the courtyard of the Enchanter's castle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to courtyard=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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