The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 19
The young pair had almost reached the edge of the wood, when the maiden stopped again.
Who acts: edge · What happens: reach, stop · To what, where: young pair
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (edge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pair | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pair | amod |
| 3 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | aux |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 reached | advmod |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 edge | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stopped | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 stopped | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stopped | nsubj |
| 16 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | parataxis |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 stopped | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the young pair | almost property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the edge of the wood | again | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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