The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 32

When they had gone a bit of the way, they came to a path with high trees on each side.

Who acts: hands · What happens: go, come · To what, where: bit, path

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 path	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 path	det
15	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trees	amod
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 path	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 side	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 side	det
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	hands = hand	a bit of the way					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bit=Theme
2	come	past	hands = hand			a path with high trees on each side			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to path=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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