The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 130

So he walked and he rode, and it seemed to him that the wood would never come to an end.

Who acts: Halvor, it, wood · What happens: walk, ride, seem, not come · To what, where: Halvor, end

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, it, wood), 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	_	6 rode	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rode	nsubj
6	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seemed	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seemed	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 end	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	walk	past	Halvor			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	past	Halvor			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	it	Halvor		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	not come	would	the wood		to a end	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=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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