The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 80
So they travelled onwards a long time, and saw one new scene after another once more.
Who acts: scenes · What happens: travel, see · To what, where: one new scene
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (scenes), 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 | onwards | onwards | ADV | _ | 3 travelled | advmod |
| 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:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 scene | nummod |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 scene | amod |
| 13 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 another | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 saw | obl |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 saw | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | scenes = scene | time | onwards property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | scenes = scene not said here | one new scene | after another | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scene=Stimulus |
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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