The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 80

It was a long, long way, but when they came to the end they found the dragon’s mother, who was as old as time itself, expecting them.

Who acts: road, words, mother · What happens: be, come, find, expect · To what, where: long long way, end, mother, words

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, words, mother), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 way	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dragon	det
19	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 dragon	case
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 old	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 old	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 old	cop
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 old	advmod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mother	amod
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 time	case
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 old	obl
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	28 time	nmod:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 expecting	punct
31	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 found	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 expecting	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	road	a long long way			tree rules
2	come	past	words = word		to the end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
3	find	past	words = word	the dragon's mother			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
4	is	past	the dragon's mother		time	old property	tree rules
5	expect	gerund	words = word not said here	words = word			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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