The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 75
For three summer days the boy and his flute journeyed on, till one evening he reached the lake, which lay in the kingdom of a powerful fairy.
Who acts: boy, lake · What happens: journey, reach, lie · To what, where: lake, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, lake), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 days | compound |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 journeyed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 journeyed | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flute | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 flute | nmod:poss |
| 9 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | conj |
| 10 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 journeyed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 evening | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 evening | nummod |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 journeyed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lake | det |
| 19 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lake | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 kingdom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kingdom | det |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fairy | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fairy | det |
| 28 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fairy | amod |
| 29 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kingdom | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | the boy and boy's flute | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | boy | the lake | evening | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lake=Theme | |||
| 3 | lie | past | the lake | the kingdom of a powerful fairy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kingdom=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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