The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 82
After a long, long time he came to the road on which he was travelling when he came to the robbers.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, travel · To what, where: road, robbers
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 travelling | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 travelling | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 travelling | aux |
| 16 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 road | acl:relcl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 travelling | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 robbers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 robbers | det |
| 22 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | the road | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | travel | past · progressive | man | the road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | man | the robbers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to robber=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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