The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 53

He rode straight on for two days, and on the third he came to a lake as smooth as glass and as clear as crystal.

Who acts: horse · What happens: ride, come · To what, where: third

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 on	advmod
4	on	on	ADV	_	2 rode	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rode	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 third	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 third	det
12	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 smooth	advmod
19	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lake	amod
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 glass	case
21	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smooth	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 clear	cc
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 clear	advmod
24	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 smooth	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 crystal	case
26	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clear	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	horse				day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	horse			the third		to a lake	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=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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