The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 72
In less than an hour he arrived at the wall, which was very high indeed.
Who acts: Désiré, wall · What happens: arrive, be · To what, where: wall
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 (Désiré, wall), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 hour | case |
| 2 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 5 hour | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 2 less | fixed |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 high | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 high | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 high | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 high | advmod |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wall | amod |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 high | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Désiré | the wall | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the wall | high, indeed property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/72/