The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 85
When they had travelled a long, long way, the Foal said:
Who acts: tails, Foal · What happens: travell, say · To what, where: long long way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tails, 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 travelled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | aux |
| 4 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Foal | det |
| 12 | Foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | past · perfect | tails = tail | a long long way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Foal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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