The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 33

The young man obeyed: at each bound the little hare went seven miles, and it was not long before they reached a castle that was as large and beautiful as a castle could be.

Who acts: young man, little hare, bound, miles, castle · What happens: obey, go, not be, reach, be · To what, where: seven miles, bound, castle

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, little hare, bound, miles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obeyed	nsubj
4	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bound	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 bound	det
8	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hare	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hare	amod
11	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	conj
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 miles	nummod
14	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 long	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 long	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 long	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 be	advmod
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 reached	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reached	nsubj
23	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 long	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reached	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 large	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 large	cop
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 large	case
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 castle	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beautiful	cc
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 large	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 castle	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 castle	det
34	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 large	obl
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 be	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the young man				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the little hare	seven miles	each bound		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme
3	not is	past	bound			long property	tree rules
4	reach	past	miles = mile	a castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
5	is	past	a castle			as a castle; large property	tree rules
6	be		a castle not said here				tree rules

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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