The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 74

The young man held tight, and marvelled where they were going and how long they were to travel, but for three days they rushed on, till at last the turtle stopped before a splendid palace, shining with gold and silver, crystal and precious stones, and decked here and there with branches of pale pink coral and glittering pearls.

Who acts: young man, Uraschimataro · What happens: hold, marvell, go, travel, rush, stop · To what, where: young man, last turtle, pearls

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, Uraschimataro), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marvelled	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	acl
5	tight	tight	ADV	_	4 held	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 marvelled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 marvelled	cc
8	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 going	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 marvelled	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 travel	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 travel	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 travel	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 travel	aux
18	to	to	PART	_	19 travel	mark
19	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rushed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 rushed	cc
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 days	case
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rushed	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rushed	nsubj
26	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 marvelled	conj
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 rushed	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turtle	punct
29	till	till	ADP	_	33 turtle	case
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 turtle	amod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 turtle	det
33	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rushed	obl
34	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 turtle	acl
35	before	before	ADP	_	38 palace	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 palace	det
37	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 palace	amod
38	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stopped	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 shining	punct
40	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 rushed	advcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 gold	case
42	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shining	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 silver	cc
44	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gold	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 crystal	punct
46	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gold	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 stones	cc
48	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 stones	amod
49	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 gold	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 decked	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 decked	cc
52	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 marvelled	conj
53	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 decked	advmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 there	cc
55	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 here	conj
56	with	with	ADP	_	57 branches	case
57	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 decked	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 coral	case
59	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 coral	amod
60	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 coral	amod
61	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 branches	nmod
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 glittering	cc
63	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 decked	conj
64	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 glittering	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 marvelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle		the young man not said here			tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marvell	past	the young man					tree rules
3	go	past · progressive	Uraschimataro					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	travel	past	Uraschimataro				long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rush	past	Uraschimataro			till the last turtle; day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stop	participle		the last turtle not said here		before a splendid palace		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	shine	gerund	Uraschimataro not said here				with gold and silver and crystal and precious stones	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme
8	deck	participle	the young man not said here		here		with branches of pale pink coral	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with branch=Theme
9	glitter	gerund	the young man not said here	pearls				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pearl=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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