The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 52

Worn out and breathless, they came at length to a large stone, and here the ball began to move restlessly.

Who acts: backs, ball · What happens: wear out, come, begin, move · To what, where: length

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 (backs, ball), 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	Worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	advcl
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Worn	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 breathless	cc
4	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Worn	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 length	case
9	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 stone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stone	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 length	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 began	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ball	det
18	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 move	mark
21	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	restlessly	restlessly	ADV	_	21 move	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wear out	participle	backs = back not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	backs = back	length to a large stone		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
3	begin	past	the ball	here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	move	to-infinitive	the ball not said here		restlessly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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