The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 106

He had gone some way without a single trace to guide him, when he came to a little river.

Who acts: colt · What happens: go, guide, come · To what, where: way, colt, little river

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl:unmarked
6	without	without	ADP	_	9 trace	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trace	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trace	amod
9	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 guide	mark
11	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gone	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 guide	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 river	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 river	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 river	amod
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	colt	some way		without a single trace	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	guide	to-infinitive	colt not said here	colt			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	come	past	colt		a little river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_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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