English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 39

Then he went on, and on, and on, till he came to the round green hill with the terrace-rings from top to bottom, and he went round it three times, widershins, saying each time:

Who acts: door · What happens: go on, come, go, say · To what, where: round green hill, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 on	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 on	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 on	cc
10	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 hill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hill	det
17	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hill	amod
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hill	amod
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 rings	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rings	det
22	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rings	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 terrace	punct
24	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hill	nmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 top	case
26	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rings	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 top	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
33	round	round	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	obl
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 times	nummod
36	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 went	obl:unmarked
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 widershins	punct
38	widershins	widershin	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 times	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 saying	punct
40	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 went	advcl
41	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	42 time	det
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 saying	obj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	go on	past	door		then	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	door	the round green hill with the terrace rings from top to bottom		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
3	go	past	door	bottom	time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round it=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	gerund	door not said here		time	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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