The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 29
After travelling about for some length of time they reached a town where lived a lovely but most arrogant Princess.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: travel, reach, live · To what, where: town, lovely Princess
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 (robbers), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 travelling | mark |
| 2 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 travelling | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 length | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 length | det |
| 6 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelling | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 length | nmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lived | advmod |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 town | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Princess | amod |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 arrogant | cc |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 arrogant | advmod |
| 19 | arrogant | arrogant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lovely | conj |
| 20 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | for some length of time; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | robbers = robber | a town | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a lovely Princess | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme princess=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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