The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 102
When he had ridden a long way, and it began to grow dark, he came to a house which lay deep in the forest.
Who acts: king, way, house · What happens: ride, begin, grow, come, lie · To what, where: long way, house, forest
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, way, house), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ridden | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ridden | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | aux |
| 4 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ridden | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 grow | mark |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grow | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 house | acl:relcl |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 22 lay | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | king | a long way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | way not said here | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | king | a house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | a house | the forest | deep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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