The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 49
On and on he walked, and at last he reached a great gloomy wood.
Who acts: Martin · What happens: walk, reach · To what, where: great gloomy wood, last
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 walked | cc |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wood | amod |
| 14 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wood | amod |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Martin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | Martin | a great gloomy wood | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent wood=Theme at last=Asset |
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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