The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 4
He walked on and on for the whole day, and when night was beginning to fall he came to a royal palace.
Who acts: lad · What happens: walk, begin, fall, come · To what, where: royal palace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beginning | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beginning | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 beginning | mark |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beginning | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 beginning | aux |
| 15 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 walked | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fall | mark |
| 17 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 beginning | xcomp |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fall | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 palace | amod |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | lad | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past · progressive | lad not said here | night | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fall | to-infinitive | lad not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | lad | a royal palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=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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