The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 22

Now the camp of the tribe was distant six days’ journey, and when they were yet one day’s journey off it began to snow, and they felt weary and longed for rest.

Who acts: camp, man, journey, six days, one day · What happens: be, begin, feel, long, journey · To what, where: snow

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camp, man, journey, six days), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 distant	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 camp	det
3	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 distant	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tribe	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tribe	det
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 camp	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 distant	cop
8	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 journey	nmod:poss
11	’	's	PART	_	10 days	case
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 distant	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 yet	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 yet	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 yet	cop
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 began	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 journey	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 day	case
22	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	nsubj
23	off	off	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 journey	nmod
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 distant	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 snow	mark
27	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 felt	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 felt	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 felt	nsubj
31	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 began	parataxis
32	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 felt	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 longed	cc
34	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 felt	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 rest	case
36	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 longed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 distant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the camp of the tribe		now	distant property	tree rules
2	is	past	man			yet property	tree rules
3	begin	past	one day's journey off camp	snow			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	feel	past	man			weary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	long	past	man not said here			for rest	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for rest=Theme
6	journey		six days				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	journey		one day			off camp	nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent off=obl

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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