The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 3

They went on travelling for two days through a great forest, without food or drink, and without coming across a single house, and every night they had to climb up into the trees through fear of the wild beasts that were in the wood.

Who acts: Scotsman, wild beasts · What happens: go, travel, come, have, climb up, be · To what, where: great forest, single house, trees, wood, wild beasts

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scotsman, wild beasts), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 travelling	mark
4	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travelling	obl
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 forest	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 forest	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forest	amod
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travelling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 food	punct
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travelling	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 drink	cc
16	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 food	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coming	cc
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 coming	mark
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
21	across	across	ADP	_	24 house	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 house	det
23	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 house	amod
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obl:unmarked
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 climb	mark
32	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	up	up	ADV	_	32 climb	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 trees	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 trees	det
36	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 climb	obl
37	through	through	ADP	_	38 fear	case
38	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 climb	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 beasts	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 beasts	det
41	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 beasts	amod
42	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fear	nmod
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 wood	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 wood	cop
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 wood	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 wood	det
47	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 beasts	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Scotsman					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	travel	gerund	Scotsman not said here		a great forest	day	without food or drink	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
3	come	gerund	Scotsman not said here		a single house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across house=Initial_Location
4	have	past	Scotsman			night		tree rules
5	climb up	to-infinitive	Scotsman not said here		the trees		through fear of the wild beasts	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into tree=Initial_Location through fear=Destination
6	is	past	the wild beasts		the wood			tree rules
7	fear			the wild beasts				nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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