The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 10

Towards evening they came to a clearing in the wood, where three birches grew at the crossing of three roads.

Who acts: princes, three birches · What happens: come, grow, cross · To what, where: wood, crossing, three roads

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, three birches), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 clearing	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clearing	det
7	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 grew	advmod
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 birches	nummod
14	birches	birch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 crossing	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crossing	det
18	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 roads	case
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 roads	nummod
21	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crossing	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	princes = prince		the wood	evening	to a clearing	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to clearing=Initial_Location
2	grow	past	three birches		the crossing of three roads			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossing=Location
3	cross			three roads				nom crossing «act transitive»: of=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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