The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 18
Hand in hand, they hurried to the spot where they had descended into the lower world, and at last reached the banks of the lake.
Who acts: words · What happens: hurry, descend, reach · To what, where: Hand, spot, lower world, banks, last
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | Hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hand | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hand | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurried | nsubj |
| 6 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 spot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 descended | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 descended | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 descended | aux |
| 13 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 spot | acl:relcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 16 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 world | amod |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 descended | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reached | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 reached | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reached | obl |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurried | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 banks | det |
| 24 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 reached | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lake | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lake | det |
| 27 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 banks | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | words = word | Hand in hand | the spot | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | |||
| 2 | descend | past · perfect | words = word | the lower world | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Location | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | words = word not said here | the banks of the lake | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bank=Theme at last=Asset |
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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