The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 3

When they had gone some way through a thick wood they came on a great grey wolf with three cubs.

Who acts: princes · What happens: go, come · To what, where: way, thick wood, great grey wolf

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
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	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl:unmarked
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 wood	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wood	det
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wood	amod
10	wood	wood	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 wood	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 wolf	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wolf	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wolf	amod
16	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wolf	amod
17	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 cubs	case
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cubs	nummod
20	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wolf	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	princes = prince	some way		a thick wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
2	come	past	princes = prince	a thick wood not said here		a great grey wolf with three cubs			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme

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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