The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 155

When they were about four stone-throws from the gates they dismounted in the forest, by the edge of a fountain.

Who acts: ways · What happens: be, dismount · To what, where: four stone throws, gates, forest

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ways), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 throws	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 throws	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 throws	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 four	advmod
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 throws	nummod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throws	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 stone	punct
8	throws	throw	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 gates	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gates	det
11	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 throws	nmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dismounted	nsubj
13	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gates	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dismounted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 edge	punct
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 edge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 edge	det
20	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throws	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 fountain	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fountain	det
23	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 edge	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 throws	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ways = way	four stone throws		the gates		by the edge of a fountain	tree rules
2	dismount	past	ways = way	the gates not said here		the forest			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient

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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