The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 58
So they started on their way, and after much wandering they reached a spot where a great rock rose straight up in the middle of the road.
Who acts: gold, great rock · What happens: start, wonder, reach, rise · To what, where: way, spot, middle
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 (gold, great rock), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 started | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 wandering | mark |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 wandering | advmod |
| 11 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 reached | advcl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 rose | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rock | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rock | amod |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rose | nsubj |
| 20 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reached | advcl |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 up | advmod |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 rose | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 middle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 middle | det |
| 25 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rose | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 road | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 middle | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | gold | gold's way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | gold not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | gold | a spot | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | a great rock | the middle of the road | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
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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