The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 19
Now his way led through a dark wood, and then over some steep cliffs, and on the top of these he found a hut or wigwam.
Who acts: way · What happens: lead, find · To what, where: dark wood, hut, top
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wood | amod |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cliffs | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cliffs | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 cliffs | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 cliffs | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 cliffs | det |
| 14 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cliffs | amod |
| 15 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 these | case |
| 22 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 top | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hut | det |
| 26 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 wigwam | cc |
| 28 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hut | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | thing's way | a dark wood | now | over some steep cliffs | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination | ||
| 2 | find | past | way | a hut or wigwam | the top of these | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Topic |
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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