The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 28

The way was long and difficult, but at length they reached the place where the mares were grazing.

Who acts: way, skins, mares · What happens: be, reach, graze · To what, where: place, length

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, skins, mares), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 difficult	cc
6	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reached	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 reached	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 length	case
10	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obl
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	4 long	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 grazing	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mares	det
17	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grazing	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grazing	aux
19	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 place	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the way			long property	tree rules
2	be		the way not said here				tree rules
3	reach	past	skins = skin	the place	length		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at length=Asset
4	graze	past · progressive	the mares				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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