English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 8

And after many searchings, she came at last to it, and a fine strong house it was, with high walls and a deep moat.

Who acts: Lady, fine strong house · What happens: come, be · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady, fine strong house), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 searchings	case
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 searchings	amod
4	searchings	searching	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 searchings	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 last	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walls	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 walls	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 house	det
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 house	amod
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 house	amod
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walls	nsubj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 walls	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 walls	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walls	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 walls	case
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 walls	amod
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 moat	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 moat	det
26	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 moat	amod
27	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walls	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Lady			last	after many searchings		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	is	past	a fine strong house					with high walls and a deep moat	tree rules

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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