The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 209
And they went till they reached the bottom and came to a great forest which lay between them and the Nunda.
Who acts: slaves, great forest · What happens: go, reach, come, lie · To what, where: bottom, great forest
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 (slaves, great forest), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forest | amod |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forest | acl:relcl |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Nunda | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Nunda | det |
| 21 | Nunda | Nunda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 them | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | slaves = slave | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | slaves = slave | the bottom | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | slaves = slave not said here | a great forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | a great forest | between slaves = slave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=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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