The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 21
Then they rode on all day through the forest without coming to the end.
Who acts: girths · What happens: ride, come · To what, where: forest, end
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girths), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 coming | mark |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rode | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | girths = girth | the forest | then; day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | girths = girth not said here | to the end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=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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