The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 5
When they had traversed the forest together they saw the castle at some distance.
Who acts: instructions · What happens: traverse, see · To what, where: forest, castle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instructions), 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 traversed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 traversed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 traversed | aux |
| 4 | traversed | traverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 traversed | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 distance | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 distance | det |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 castle | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | traverse | past · perfect | instructions = instruction | the forest | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | instructions = instruction | the castle | at some distance; together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
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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