The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 65
So he continued to walk on through the forest, and after some hours he arrived at the gate of a temple, guarded by two huge lions.
Who acts: thought · What happens: continue, walk, arrive, guard · To what, where: forest, gate
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought), 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 | _ | 3 continued | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 walk | mark |
| 5 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continued | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walk | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arrived | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 hours | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 hours | det |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arrived | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 arrived | nsubj |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 gate | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gate | det |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrived | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 temple | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 temple | det |
| 22 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gate | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 guarded | punct |
| 24 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 arrived | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 lions | case |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 lions | nummod |
| 27 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lions | amod |
| 28 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 guarded | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | thought | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | thought not said here | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | thought | the gate of a temple | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | guard | participle | thought not said here | by two huge lions | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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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