More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 20
And one day as he went through the wood he found himself near the Bears' Castle, and he wondered whether he could get into the castle.
Who acts: Scrapefoot · What happens: go, find, wonder, get · To what, where: wood, Scrapefoot, Castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot), 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 | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 went | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wood | acl:relcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 Castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bears | det |
| 15 | Bears | Bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 Castle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 Bears | case |
| 17 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wondered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wondered | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wondered | nsubj |
| 21 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wondered | ccomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 castle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Scrapefoot | the wood | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | Scrapefoot | Scrapefoot | the Bears's Castle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | Scrapefoot | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | could | Scrapefoot | the castle | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into castle=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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