The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 57
After journeying through three different kingdoms he reached a wood one night, and lying down under a tree prepared to go to sleep there.
Who acts: tree, lying · What happens: journey, reach, lie down, prepare, go, sleep · To what, where: three different kingdoms, wood, tree
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, lying), 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 journeying | mark |
| 2 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 reached | advcl |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 kingdoms | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 kingdoms | nummod |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kingdoms | amod |
| 6 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 journeying | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 night | nummod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prepared | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 prepared | cc |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 prepared | csubj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 lying | advmod |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lying | obl |
| 20 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 reached | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 prepared | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 sleep | mark |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 go | advcl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 sleep | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | gerund | tree not said here | three different kingdoms | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through kingdom=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | tree | a wood | night | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | |||
| 3 | lie down | gerund | a tree | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | prepare | participle | lying | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | lying not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | lying not said here | there | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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