The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 36

He travelled in this way for many weeks, passing by villages, towns, mountains, valleys, and plains, but always pushing south, where every day the sun seemed hotter and more brilliant.

Who acts: horse, sun · What happens: travel, pass, push, seem · To what, where: plains, way

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 (horse, sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 weeks	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weeks	amod
8	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 way	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passing	punct
10	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 villages	case
12	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 passing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 towns	punct
14	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 villages	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mountains	punct
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 villages	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 valleys	punct
18	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 villages	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 plains	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 plains	cc
21	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pushing	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 pushing	cc
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 pushing	advmod
25	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	parataxis
26	south	south	ADV	_	25 pushing	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 seemed	advmod
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	obl:unmarked
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sun	det
32	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pushing	parataxis
34	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 seemed	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 brilliant	cc
36	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 brilliant	advmod
37	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hotter	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	horse	plains	this way for many weeks			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory
2	pass	gerund	horse not said here				by villages and towns and mountains and valleys	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by village=Location
3	push	gerund					always, south property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	the sun			day	hot property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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