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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 months | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 months | nummod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 entrance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 entrance | det |
| 11 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forest | amod |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entrance | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forest | acl:relcl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 trodden | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 trodden | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 trodden | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 trodden | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 trodden | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 trodden | aux:pass |
| 25 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 looked | ccomp |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 foot | case |
| 27 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 foot | amod |
| 28 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trodden | obl |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 25 trodden | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seemed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 seemed | cc |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 seemed | nsubj |
| 33 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 stretch | mark |
| 35 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 seemed | xcomp |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 stretch | compound:prt |
| 37 | indefinitely | indefinitely | ADV | _ | 35 stretch | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King | at the end of three months | to the entrance of a huge forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to entrance=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | past | a huge forest | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not tread a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | human foot | evil | before property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | stretch out | to-infinitive | indefinitely property | vn 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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