The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 80

At last he came to a bridge which stretched over a deep river flowing through a flat and marshy land.

Who acts: linen, bridge, deep river · What happens: come, stretch, flow · To what, where: last, deep river, flat land

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (linen, bridge, deep river), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bridge	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stretched	nsubj
9	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bridge	acl:relcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 river	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 river	det
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 river	amod
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stretched	obl
14	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 river	acl
15	through	through	ADP	_	20 land	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 land	det
17	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 land	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 marshy	cc
19	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flat	conj
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flowing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	linen	last	to a bridge	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location
2	stretch	past	a bridge	a deep river		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over river=Location
3	flow	gerund	a deep river not said here	a flat land		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=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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