The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 19

After they had gone a little way along the road they came into a forest, and in one of the deepest glades they suddenly found themselves opposite a castle in which there lived a band of robbers.

Who acts: brothers, one · What happens: go, come, find, live · To what, where: little way, road, forest, brothers, band, castle

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 (brothers, one), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 road	acl:relcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 found	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 glades	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 glades	det
22	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 glades	amod
23	glades	glade	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 found	advmod
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 found	obj
28	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	30 castle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 castle	det
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 lived	obl
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 lived	advmod
34	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 castle	acl:relcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 band	det
36	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lived	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 robbers	case
38	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 band	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	brothers = brother	a little way		along the road	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	come	past	brothers = brother	the road not said here	a forest		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme
3	find	past	one of the deepest glades	brothers = brother		opposite a castle; suddenly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
4	live	past		a band of robbers	a castle; there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme band=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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