The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 44

They passed by hills, they passed by mountains, they passed through valleys, leaving behind them thick forests, and fields covered with flowers; and at length they reached the court of the over-lord.

Who acts: tears, fields · What happens: pass, leave, cover, reach · To what, where: valleys, thick forests, fields, court, length

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, fields), 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 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 hills	case
4	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passed	nsubj
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 mountains	case
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 passed	nsubj
12	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
13	through	through	ADP	_	14 valleys	case
14	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 passed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leaving	punct
16	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 passed	advcl
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leaving	obl
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 forests	amod
20	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 leaving	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 covered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 covered	cc
23	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 covered	nsubj:pass
24	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 passed	parataxis
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 flowers	case
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 covered	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 reached	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 reached	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 length	case
30	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reached	obl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reached	nsubj
32	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 court	det
34	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reached	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 over-lord	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 over-lord	det
37	over-lord	over-lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 court	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	tears = tear			by hills	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hill=Location
2	pass	past	tears = tear			by mountains	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mountain=Location
3	pass	past	tears = tear		valleys		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through valley=Location
4	leave	gerund	tears = tear not said here	thick forests		behind tears = tear	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent forest=Theme behind they=Location
5	cover	participle · passive		fields		with flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme
6	reach	past	fields = field	the court of the over-lord	length		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent court=Theme at length=Asset

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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