The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 169

At last he saw in the distance a wild mountain, half covered with a dense forest, and thinking that this promised well at once took the road that led to it.

Who acts: youth, this, thinking, road · What happens: see, cover, think, promise, take, lead · To what, where: wild mountain, last, road · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, this, thinking, road), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 distance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 distance	det
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mountain	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mountain	amod
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 covered	punct
12	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 covered	advmod
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 forest	det
16	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forest	amod
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 took	csubj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 promised	mark
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 promised	nsubj
23	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thinking	ccomp
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 promised	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 promised	obl
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 road	det
29	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 led	nsubj
31	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 road	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 led	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	youth	a wild mountain		last	in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus
2	cover	participle	youth not said here				with a dense forest; half property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with forest=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	promise speech: promise	past	this				well property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	take	past	thinking	the road				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
6	lead	past	the road		road			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to it=Patient

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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