The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 11
So on he travelled, away, away, away, through thick forests, till at last he came to a beautiful castle.
Who acts: man · What happens: travel, come · To what, where: thick forests, last
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 travelled | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 4 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 away | punct |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 away | punct |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 away | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forests | punct |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 forests | case |
| 13 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forests | amod |
| 14 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 travelled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 came | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 castle | amod |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | man | thick forests | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | man | last | to a beautiful castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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