The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 60
For a long time he walked on, without having any more adventures, till at length he met a man travelling on the same road.
Who acts: prince, man · What happens: walk on, have, meet, travel · To what, where: adventures, man, same road
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, man), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 walked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 having | punct |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 having | mark |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 walked | advcl |
| 11 | any | any | ADV | _ | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 adventures | advmod |
| 13 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 having | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 length | punct |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 having | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 met | nsubj |
| 19 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 length | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | obj |
| 22 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 man | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 road | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 road | amod |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 travelling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | prince | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | prince not said here | adventures | till length | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient | |||
| 3 | meet | past | prince | a man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | travel | gerund | a man not said here | the same road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory |
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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