English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 7
They walked all that day, and at nightfall entered a thick forest.
Who acts: Mr. · What happens: walk, enter · To what, where: thick forest, nightfall
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr.), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det:predet |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 entered | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 nightfall | case |
| 9 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obl |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forest | amod |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Mr. | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Mr. not said here | a thick forest | nightfall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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