The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 220

After that they walked all round the back of the mountain to the place where they had left the Nunda, and they saw it stretched out where they had found it, stiff and dead.

Who acts: legs, place · What happens: walk, leave, see, stretch out, find · To what, where: Nunda, place

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 (legs, place), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 walked	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 back	advmod
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 back	det
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 left	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 left	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 left	aux
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 place	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Nunda	det
20	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 left	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	obj
26	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 saw	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 stretched	compound:prt
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 found	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 stretched	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stiff	punct
34	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 found	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dead	cc
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stiff	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	legs = leg		after that	round the back of the mountain; to the place result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result
2	leave	past · perfect	legs = leg	the Nunda			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nunda=Theme
3	see	past	legs = leg	place			tree rules
4	stretch out	participle	place not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	find	past · perfect	legs = leg	place		stiff property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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