The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 37

When he came within a hundred paces of it he did not cease to be able to move, but he went on till he reached the gate.

Who acts: Joringel · What happens: come, not cease, be, move, go on, reach · To what, where: gate

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 paces	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 paces	nummod
7	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paces	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cease	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cease	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cease	advmod
13	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 able	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	cop
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cease	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 move	mark
18	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
23	on	on	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 reached	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 reached	nsubj
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gate	det
28	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Joringel		within hundred paces of flower	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not cease	past · do-support	Joringel			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	Joringel not said here		able property	tree rules
4	move	to-infinitive	Joringel not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	go on	past	Joringel			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reach	past	Joringel	the gate		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme

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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