The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 6

I cannot say whether the voyage was short or long; but at last he reached the country of the heathen king and marched on, defeating all who came in his way.

Who acts: I, voyage, last · What happens: not say, be, reach, march on, defeat, come · To what, where: country, last, all, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, voyage, last), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 short	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 voyage	det
7	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 short	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 short	cop
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 long	cc
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 short	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 reached	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 reached	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 king	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
22	heathen	heathen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 king	amod
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 country	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 marched	cc
25	marched	march	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 reached	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	25 marched	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 defeating	punct
28	defeating	defeat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 marched	advcl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 defeating	obj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 all	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 way	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 way	nmod:poss
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the voyage			short property	tree rules
3	be		the voyage not said here				tree rules
4	reach	past	last	the country of the heathen king	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent country=Theme at last=Asset
5	march on	participle	last not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	defeat	gerund	last not said here	all			tree rules
7	come	past			last's way		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=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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