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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 59

At the end of three months he came to the entrance of a huge forest, which looked as if it had never been trodden by human foot before, and which seemed to stretch out indefinitely.

Who acts: King, huge forest, human foot · What happens: come, look, not tread, seem, stretch out · To what, where: end, evil

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, huge forest, human foot), 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

casedetoblcasenummodnmodnsubjcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodpunctnsubjacl:relclmarkmarknsubj:passauxadvmodaux:passccompcaseamodobladvmodpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompcompound:prtadvmodpunctrootAtADPtheDETendNOUNofADPthreeNUMmonthsNOUNhePRONcameVERBtoADPtheDETentranceNOUNofADPaDEThugeADJforestNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONlookedVERBasSCONJifSCONJitPRONhadAUXneverADVbeenAUXtroddenVERBbyADPhumanADJfootNOUNbeforeADV,PUNCTandCCONJwhichPRONseemedVERBtoPARTstretchVERBoutADPindefinitelyADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_3 endcase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 enddet
3endendNOUNNumber=Sing8 cameobl
4ofofADP_6 monthscase
5threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card6 monthsnummod
6monthsmonthNOUNNumber=Plur3 endnmod
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 camensubj
8camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9totoADP_11 entrancecase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 entrancedet
11entranceentranceNOUNNumber=Sing8 cameobl
12ofofADP_15 forestcase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 forestdet
14hugehugeADJDegree=Pos15 forestamod
15forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing11 entrancenmod
16,,PUNCT_18 lookedpunct
17whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel18 lookednsubj
18lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 forestacl:relcl
19asasSCONJ_25 troddenmark
20ififSCONJ_25 troddenmark
21ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 troddennsubj:pass
22hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 troddenaux
23neverneverADVPronType=Neg25 troddenadvmod
24beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 troddenaux:pass
25troddentreadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 lookedccomp
26bybyADP_28 footcase
27humanhumanADJDegree=Pos28 footamod
28footfootNOUNNumber=Sing25 troddenobl
29beforebeforeADV_25 troddenadvmod
30,,PUNCT_33 seemedpunct
31andandCCONJ_33 seemedcc
32whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel33 seemednsubj
33seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 cameconj
34totoPART_35 stretchmark
35stretchstretchVERBVerbForm=Inf33 seemedxcomp
36outoutADP_35 stretchcompound:prt
37indefinitelyindefinitelyADV_35 stretchadvmod
38..PUNCT_8 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastKingat the end of three monthsto the entrance of a huge forestvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to entrance=Initial_Location
2lookpasta huge foresttree rules
3not tread a condition, not said to happenpast · perfect · passivehuman footevilbefore propertyvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme
4seempastvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5stretch outto-infinitiveindefinitely propertyvn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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