The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 60
When he had run thus for a long time, he too came to the cleft in the rock.
Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: run, come · To what, where: cleft
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 (Cinderlad), 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 run | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 cleft | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cleft | det |
| 16 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 rock | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rock | det |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cleft | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | Cinderlad | time | thus property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | Cinderlad | the cleft in the rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cleft=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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