The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 189

They wandered far through deserts and through forests, and at length came to the foot of a great hill.

Who acts: footprints · What happens: wander, come · To what, where: deserts, length

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footprints), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wandered	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 deserts	case
5	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wandered	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 forests	cc
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 forests	case
8	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deserts	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 length	case
12	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 foot	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foot	det
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 hill	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hill	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hill	amod
20	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foot	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	footprints = footprint			deserts and forests		far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through desert=Trajectory
2	come	past				length		to the foot of a great hill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_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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