The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 55

At last he came to one of the largest forests in all the world, composed entirely of cedars.

Who acts: bird · What happens: come, compose · To what, where: one, last

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 forests	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forests	det
9	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 forests	amod
10	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 world	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forests	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 composed	punct
16	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
17	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	16 composed	advmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 cedars	case
19	cedars	cedar	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 entirely	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	bird		one of the largest forests in all world	last			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location
2	compose	participle	bird not said here					entirely property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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