The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 98
After he had gone a long way without thinking where he was going, he saw at last a light far away, and made straight for it.
Who acts: loss · What happens: go, think, see, make · To what, where: long way, last light · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (loss), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 saw | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 thinking | mark |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | advcl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 going | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thinking | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 light | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 light | amod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 light | det |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 light | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 26 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 25 made | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | loss | a long way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | loss not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | loss | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | loss | a last light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | make | past | loss not said here | for light; straight property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for it=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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