The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 72
They went together a long, long way, till they reached the palace of the King of the Snakes.
Who acts: companions · What happens: go together, reach · To what, where: long long way, palace
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Snakes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Snakes | det |
| 20 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 palace | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | past | companions = companion | a long long way | together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | past | companions = companion | the palace of the King of the Snakes | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=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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