Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 96
They went on and on, and traveled a long way, and passed over mountains and rivers, and sailed over seas.
Who acts: companions · What happens: go, travel, pass, sail · To what, where: long way, mountains, seas
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 traveled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 traveled | cc |
| 8 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traveled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 passed | cc |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 traveled | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 mountains | case |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 passed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rivers | cc |
| 18 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mountains | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sailed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sailed | cc |
| 21 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 seas | advmod |
| 23 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sailed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | companions = companion | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | past | a long way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | pass | participle | mountains and rivers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over mountain=Location | |||||
| 4 | sail | past | companions = companion not said here | seas | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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