The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 30

After travelling for many days, he arrived at length before a large gate, and through the bars he could see the streets of a town, and even the palace.

Who acts: prince · What happens: travel, arrive, see · To what, where: length, streets, bars

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 (prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:538): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 travelling	mark
2	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 arrived	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelling	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 travelling	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 arrived	nsubj
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 length	case
10	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	14 gate	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gate	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gate	amod
14	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 bars	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bars	det
19	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 arrived	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 streets	det
24	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 town	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 town	det
27	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 streets	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 palace	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 palace	cc
30	even	even	ADV	_	32 palace	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 streets	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	travel	gerund	prince not said here			day	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	past	prince		length	before a large gate	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	could	prince	the streets of a town and the palace	the bars		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer street=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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