The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 49
They went on a bit together, till they came to a thin part of the wood, where they found an aspen tree growing.
Who acts: hands, aspen tree · What happens: go, come, find, grow · To what, where: bit, thin part, aspen tree
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, aspen tree), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 bit | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 found | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 23 | aspen | aspen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 25 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 found | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | hands = hand | a bit | together property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bit=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | hands = hand | a thin part of the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to part=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | hands = hand | a aspen tree | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tree=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | a aspen tree not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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