The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 73
When they had gone thus for a long, long way, the Foal again asked:
Who acts: foals, Foal · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: long long way
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 (foals, Foal), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Foal | det |
| 14 | Foal | Foal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 asked | advmod |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | acl:relcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | foals = foal | for a long long way; thus property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for way=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Foal | a long long way not said here | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
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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