The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 47

It was no short way, and he travelled for many days before he finally arrived there.

Who acts: merchant, man · What happens: be, travel, arrive · To what, where: short way

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 (merchant, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 way	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 travelled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 travelled	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 travelled	nsubj
9	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 travelled	obl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 arrived	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 arrived	nsubj
15	finally	finally	ADV	_	16 arrived	advmod
16	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 travelled	advcl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 arrived	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	merchant	no short way				tree rules
2	travel	past	man	no short way not said here		day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
3	arrive	past	man		there		finally property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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