The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 103
And it went and it went through the forest and wilderness, till it arrived at a town full of fine houses.
Who acts: palace · What happens: go, arrive · To what, where: forest, town
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wilderness | cc |
| 11 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forest | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrived | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 arrived | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrived | obl |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 town | amod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 houses | case |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 houses | amod |
| 22 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | palace | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | palace | the forest and wilderness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | palace | a town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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