The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 39
So the damsel thanked her, and departed, and walked and walked and walked till she came to another castle.
Who acts: damsel, Moon · What happens: thank, depart, walk, come · To what, where: Moon, castle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel, Moon), 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 | _ | 4 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 damsel | det |
| 3 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | nsubj |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 departed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 departed | cc |
| 8 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 walked | cc |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walked | conj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 walked | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the damsel | Moon | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | depart | past | the damsel not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | come | past | Moon | another castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=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 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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