The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 128
So he walked and rode the whole day, through a great wood where there were many green places which gleamed very prettily among the trees.
Who acts: Halvor, many green places · What happens: walk, ride, gleam · To what, where: great wood, trees
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 (Halvor, many green places), 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 walked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rode | cc |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wood | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wood | amod |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 were | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 were | expl |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wood | acl:relcl |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 places | amod |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 places | amod |
| 19 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 were | nsubj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 gleamed | nsubj |
| 21 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 places | acl:relcl |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 prettily | advmod |
| 23 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 21 gleamed | advmod |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 trees | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gleamed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Halvor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | Halvor not said here | a great wood | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | gleam | past | many green places | the trees | prettily property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=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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