The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 16
The brothers rode on the whole day, and towards evening they came to a great forest, which they entered.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: ride, come, enter · To what, where: great forest
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 evening | case |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 forest | amod |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entered | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 entered | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forest | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the brothers | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | brothers = brother | a great forest | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | enter | past | brothers = brother | a great forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Destination |
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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