The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 91
So they travelled onwards again, for many and many a mile, over hill and dale.
Who acts: foals · What happens: travel
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 travelled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | onwards | onwards | ADV | _ | 3 travelled | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 travelled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mile | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 mile | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mile | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 many | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 many | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mile | det |
| 12 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hill | punct |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mile | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dale | cc |
| 17 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hill | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | foals = foal | again | for a mile over hill and dale; onwards property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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