The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 107
He walked, and walked, and walked, till he came to a great green meadow.
Who acts: whale · What happens: walk, come · To what, where: great green meadow
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 walked | cc |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walked | cc |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walked | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 meadow | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 meadow | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 meadow | amod |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 meadow | amod |
| 17 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | whale | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | whale not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | whale | a great green meadow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=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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