The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 45

It took her more than half an hour to get to a distant part of the little town, but at last she stopped in front of a small tumble-down house.

Who acts: It, woman · What happens: take, get, stop · To what, where: woman, last

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, woman), 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	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 half	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 hour	det:predet
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 part	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 part	det
13	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 town	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 town	amod
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 stopped	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stopped	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 front	case
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stopped	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	33 house	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 house	det
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 house	amod
30	tumble	tumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 down	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 tumble	punct
32	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 house	compound
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 front	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	woman		hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
2	get	to-infinitive					to a distant part of the little town result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to part=Result
3	stop	past	woman		last		in front of a small down house	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location

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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