The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 23
When he had walked for some time he came to a great wood, and it stretched before him all day long as he went on, and when night began to fall he saw a great light, and went towards it.
Who acts: son, wood, night · What happens: walk, come, stretch, go on, begin, fall · To what, where: time, great light, wood
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, wood, night), 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 | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wood | amod |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stretched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stretched | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stretched | nsubj |
| 17 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | parataxis |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stretched | obl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stretched | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 went | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 went | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stretched | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 began | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 began | cc |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 began | advmod |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 began | nsubj |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stretched | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 fall | mark |
| 33 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 began | xcomp |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 fall | ccomp |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 light | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 light | amod |
| 38 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 saw | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 went | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 went | cc |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 began | parataxis |
| 42 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 went | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | son | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | son | some time not said here | to a great wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 3 | stretch | past | wood | before son; day | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | son | long property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | night | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | fall | to-infinitive | night not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | past | son | a great light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | go | past | wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards it=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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