The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 10

So he went on shore, and it was a delightful country; whithersoever he went there were wide plains with fields and meadows, but as for people, there were none to be seen.

Who acts: wind, skipper · What happens: go, be, see · To what, where: shore, delightful country, wide plains, none

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, skipper), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 shore	case
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 country	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 country	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 country	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 country	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 country	det
11	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 country	amod
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	whithersoever	whithersoever	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 plains	acl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 went	advmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 plains	cop
19	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plains	amod
20	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 fields	case
22	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 meadows	cc
24	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fields	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 seen	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 seen	cc
27	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	29 people	case
28	for	for	ADP	_	27 as	fixed
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 seen	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 people	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 were	expl
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 seen	aux:pass
33	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	36 seen	nsubj:pass
34	to	to	PART	_	36 seen	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 seen	aux:pass
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	wind		shore	with fields and meadows	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with field=Beneficiary
2	is a	past	skipper	a delightful country			tree rules
3	go	past	wind	wide plains not said here	there	whithersoever property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plain=Theme
4	is a	past		wide plains			tree rules
5	see	past · passive		none		as people	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as people=Attribute

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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