The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 12

So after a while he came to a great highway, which was so smooth that an egg might have been rolled along it without breaking.

Who acts: wind, great highway · What happens: come, be, roll, break · To what, where: great highway, egg, highway

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, great highway), 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	_	6 came	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 highway	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 highway	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 highway	amod
10	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smooth	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 smooth	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 smooth	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 smooth	advmod
15	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 highway	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 rolled	mark
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 egg	det
18	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rolled	nsubj:pass
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 rolled	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 rolled	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 rolled	aux:pass
22	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 smooth	advcl
23	along	along	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rolled	obl
25	without	without	SCONJ	_	26 breaking	mark
26	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 rolled	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	wind		a great highway	while		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to highway=Initial_Location
2	is	past	a great highway				smooth property	tree rules
3	roll	might · perfect · passive		a egg	highway			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme along it=Trajectory
4	break	gerund						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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